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...corners of the industry haven't been touched by the slumping economy. Recycling, which involves about 22% of solid waste, is sensitive to shifts in the prices for recyclable commodities like paper and glass, which have slipped of late. "A couple of years ago, I was getting $210 a ton for mixed office paper," says Butch Michitson, recycling manager for Northeastern University in Boston. "I'd be getting checks every month for $9,000 or $10,000. And I'd be walking into my boss's office saying, 'This is for trash.' Then the markets dried up." Today Michitson gets...
...huge hardcover that weighs ton, costs fifty bucks and has become required reading. No, it's not a textbook. It's Dave McKean's "Cages," (NBM Publishing Inc.; 496(!)pp.) A self-described comic novel, "Cages" first appeared as a series of sporadically published books from 1991 through 1996. Then the collected "Cages" became a victim of successive publishing bankruptcies, and has been out of print for some time. As ambitious as it is gigantic, it has now returned. Possibly the most high-end comic ever published, "Cages" combines art-book production values with a story about Life, Death...
...wake of an international outcry over the 15 Palestinian civilians Israel killed in the process of assassinating senior Hamas leader Sheik Salah Shehadah last week, Israeli leaders said they wouldn't have dropped the one-ton bomb on his Gaza hideout if they had known the result in advance. But given Shehadah's recent achievements, it is clear why Israeli security officials wanted him gone. Palestinian officials and Israeli security sources tell TIME the 49-year-old Gazan had transformed Hamas' terror operations over the past year. From Gaza, Shehadah used e-mail and cell-phone text messages to rebuild...
AFGHANISTAN Murder Attempt A man who narrowly failed to explode a car bomb in central Kabul was an al-Qaeda member attempting to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said local officials. Only a traffic accident prevented the half-ton bomb from going off in a high-security area that includes Karzai's offices, the American embassy and the headquarters of United Nations peacekeepers. The bomber's car collided with another vehicle and then aroused suspicions by immediately speeding away. Police chased it and caught the driver but not his passenger...
MIDDLE EAST Israel Takes the Heat for a Deadly Attack An israeli attack on Gaza City killed a Hamas leader and 14 other people, including nine children. About 150 people were injured by the one-ton guided bomb, which destroyed two buildings and blew open three others. The attack's target was Sheik Salah Shehadeh, a founder and leader of the Izzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hailed the killing of Shehadeh as "one of our major successes." Yet the attack was condemned around the world...