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...appears, that the guide, launched in 1900 as the eponymous tire maker's handbook for pioneering automotive travelers, has concluded that some of the city's restaurants are "worth a special journey," after all. Michelin this week unveiled its first New York City guide, rating 507 restaurants and 50 hotels, and sparking one of the more intriguing Franco-American rivalries in years. It pits the tastes of the Michelin Inspecteur, dining alone and pronouncing his verdict in secret, against the democratic verdict in Zagat, the everyman guide whose ratings are based on survey responses from thousands of diners...
...congressmen in the spring. (Before she spoke, she asked her Mom if addressing a big crowd was a little like cheerleading. They decided it was.) "I have a tool that costs about ninety-nine cents that will save us four million gallons of gas a day, starting today. A tire gauge." The crowd cheered...
...Many children would have gone back to their computer games. Walters went to Goodyear, and asked for free tire gauges. With 1,000 in hand, she and her Brownie group from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, handed out flyers and gauges at the parking lot of their local commuter rail station...
...Since that first campaign, in 2002, Walters has launched a website and personally handed out another 4,000 donated tire gauges, working at times with the Sierra Club and Alaska Wilderness League. Pump 'em Up events have been held in at least 11 states, and the website has a downloadable television public service announcement as well as worksheets for kids to prove to parents how much money correct inflation will save them, both on gas and the replacement cost of tires, which can wear out about 15,000 miles early if under-inflated...
...Pens made from discarded computer printers. Pencil cases fashioned from old tires. These eye-catching and eco-friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company?called, natch, Remarkable?has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil...