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...better symbols on products showing their recycled content. The National Recycling Coalition, based in Washington, has persuaded 25 large industrial companies, including Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, AT&T, McDonald's and Johnson & Johnson, to back a "Buy Recycled" movement. The Environmental Protection Agency is about to launch a "Buy Wa$te Wi$e" campaign, urging consumers and manufacturers to favor recycled goods. "The public must get away from the idea that merely putting items in containers at the curb is recycling," says David Dougherty, director of the Clean Washington Center in Seattle. "It's not recycled until it's used...
After another brief delay, the musicians, sporting predictably funky fashions, entered in a single-file procession, led by the snare drum beat of "groove regulator" Yosef Siegel. They mounted the stage and began the "Funkmove," a churning groove heavy with bass, drums, and wa-wa guitar effects. This introduction went on for nearly 20 minutes while the crew struggled to get sound to the singers' microphones. The funknical difficulties seemed to sap some of the crowd's thump-with-your-rump energy...
Booms' family has requested that donations be sent to the Julia K. Booms Memorial Scholarship Fund c/o the Seattle Foundation, 425 Pike St. Suite 510, Seattle, WA...
...says with a smile, "I can certainly remain in power for another five, 10 or even 20 years." Any hope that he will peacefully step aside is belied by the name he took for himself several years after he seized power in the 1960s: Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (the all powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, shall go from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake...
...face, of course, was not allowed to, but my biggest impression is of his hands. He has big, thick hands, and he's paunchy. He would come in, and he'd take my hand, and he'd say, "Essalamu alaykum ((Peace be with you))." I'd say, "Wa alaykum essalam, Haj." He'd say, "Keef halak...