Word: styrofoam
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...agency gets little public recognition, and that's just fine. It sticks to the science and leaves product development and marketing--and the glory--to others. Glenn invented some nonfood uses for wheat starch, including a biodegradable version of Styrofoam food containers. His work is being incorporated in various products at EarthShell Corp., a disposable-food-packaging company based in Santa Barbara, Calif. But when commercial production of the wheat-based plates and bowls begins next year, consumers will see only EarthShell's name on the label. There will be no reference to ARS. "We don't want the USDA...
...wall next to a small ventilation shaft, which emerged above ground a few feet away from the entrance. It's hard to imagine the confines could provide its inhabitant with a feeling of security, much less power, or anything other than a sense of claustrophobia, especially when the Styrofoam block is lowered into the entrance way, then covered with a rubber mat, a cloth rug, and dirt-as it was when Special Operations Forces soldiers discovered it shortly after 8 p.m. on December...
...strides inside the front gate, a soldier kicked away some dirt from a spot that looked odd-a spot on top of which a soldier had stood during the first pass. Underneath the dirt was a cloth rug. Underneath that was a rubber mat, which sat atop a thick Styrofoam block. "We expected something more elaborate. We expected something more well constructed," said Lt. Col. Hickey. They also expected resistance, he says, but when the block was removed, "two hands appeared. That individual clearly wanted to surrender." The bearded, bewildered looking man did not reach for the pistol...
...does not tell all. The quality of her humanity is glimpsed fleetingly, often by inference. The vivid moments in the book--like the now famous scene when Bill tells her the truth about Monica--are packaged like fragile crystal, surrounded by rhetorical Styrofoam. There are many sentences, sometimes whole paragraphs, that snooze along reflexively: "I wanted to guard the social safety net--health care, education, pensions, wages and jobs--that was in danger of fraying for citizens less able to absorb the changes resulting from the high-tech revolution and a global consumer culture." Living History is, first and last...
...director of the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative (HFTI), and other members of HFTI held the innovative coffee-pong competition outside of the Science Center last week. The playful coffee break doubled as an opportunity to raise awareness and to give out small Styrofoam cups of fairly traded brew. Bar Am swept FM in a one-on-one grudge match as he handed out java to passerbys. (FM refused to run a naked...