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...Rochester's Nasr says new technologies coming to market now will allow remanufacturers to work with more complex electronic components, things like automotive navigation systems and dvd players that people now tend to throw away when they get old or break. Cars can easily last 10 years, he says, but many gadgets are obsolete within two. He envisions automakers taking cars returned after their two- or three-year leases expire and "refreshing" them with more up-to-date remanufactured components before they're put on sale in the preowned market...
...mold to ensure cooking consistency. The lettuce, tomato and onions are grown in the Nile River basin's year-round sunshine, requiring no preservatives. "It really boils down to the fact that it's all homemade," Lucille tells me. "We've gone back to basics. I don't throw anything in the grinder that doesn't belong there...
...cuisine consisted in a second dinner. By “second dinner” I mean that one of the housemates had bought a loaf of French bread and left half of it out on the counter until it had hardened to a level where any reasonable person would throw it away. Naturally, I swooped in to keep good food from being wasted, warmed it in the oven, and proceeded to devour it with poverty’s best companion, peanut butter. This tasteless, crumbly bonus meal gave me such a sense of satisfaction that the bread?...
...Fatah party. Explains a senior Arab official, the decision to hold a meeting between Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "is a diplomatic warning to Hamas: If you try to strip Abbas's authority, think twice. We'll throw all our support to Abbas and work against...
Will the new $7.4 billion spending package that was just approved make a dent in the problem or does it, as critics claim, throw more good money after bad? The legislature used to pass bill after bill giving the department of corrections more and more money and it never tied the increased funding to performance measures showing whether they were involving inmates in programs or preparing them for release. Under this law, the prisons department is only allowed to build all of the new proposed beds in phases over the next decade. Officials can't get more money from...