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Environmentalists can suggest a multitude of ways to do that: recycle paper, aluminum, tin, glass, motor oil and car batteries. Reuse bottles, containers and shopping bags, or at least choose paper bags over plastic at the supermarket. And do not be fooled by the BIODEGRADABLE label on some new plastic products. They may not in fact break down, and those that do may take as long as 500 years. When something tears, wears or breaks, repair it instead of replacing...
...stand in line every morning, eyes glazed by hunger, clamoring for government handouts. The residents of most lower-class neighborhoods have had to fend for themselves. In the city's northern barrio of San Fernando, Ever Ponce, 30, and his brother Miguel, 37, work as shelf clerks in a supermarket and try to make ends meet with second jobs as painters at a private airport. Hard-pressed as they are, in recent months they helped organize a soup kitchen for their hunger-crazed neighbors, lining up donations of food from local companies. The project fed 300 people a day, most...
What seems to satisfy mom-and-pop customers most is a quality that the chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw...
...fail to understand why we're under such a cloud of suspicion," said Stop and Shop Vice President Charles Richards, adding that the supermarket company has owned its current building for more than 40 years...
City Councillor William H. Walsh suggested that one way around the difficulty might be to specify that the city could buy the property back if Stop and Shop should decide not to build a supermarket...