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Wofsy explains that when CFL bulbs are simply thrown away, mercury can enter the waste stream, posing a hazard to trash workers and potentially leeching into water basins and the atmosphere. In addition, most CFL bulbs are incompatible with dimmer switches, and must be cleaned up a particular way if they break...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shedding Light on CFL Usage | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...Each trash room in the freshman dorms are equipped with battery and CFL disposal bins and upperclassmen can bring old bulbs to their House superintendents...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shedding Light on CFL Usage | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

What's more Partisan, shrill and exhausting than presidential politics? The eternal conflict between Microsoft and Apple, of course. While the race to the White House will, mercifully, be over soon, the decades-long battle between Macs and PCs--with the negative ads and trash-talking bigwigs--will persist until cockroaches inherit the earth. You think taxes are just a political issue? A few weeks ago, as Apple prepared to launch its new line of laptops, Microsoft execs were on the stump, criticizing what they call the "Apple tax," the premium consumers pay for Macs with the same power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born to Hand Jive | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...margins; if stockholders couldn't pay up, their stocks were sold, wiping out many an investor's life savings in an instant. So many trades were made - each recorded on a slip of paper - that traders didn't know where to store them, and ended up stuffing them into trash cans. One trader fainted from exhaustion, was revived and put back to work. Others got into fistfights. The New York Stock Exchange's board of governors considered closing the market, but decided against it, lest the move increase the panic. When the market closed at 3 p.m., more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash of 1929 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Rather than sorting through our trash bins, rationing out Solo cups at dorm-room parties, only sparingly pushing down—instead of up—on the “dual-flush” toilet handle, and following other environmental advice that is an affront to human dignity and common sense, we can simply be more thoughtful, considerate, and conservative in our daily habits...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: It’s Not Easy Being Green | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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