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...instance, Lt. Col. Piers M. Wood, director of the Center for Defense Information, says that Harvard and other schools should push for legislation to change the rules, rather than antagonize the military...
...roof over their heads -- literally. A fire-resistant plywood widely used in the roofs of nearly 1 million town houses during the past decade has turned out to have an unexpected vulnerability. Over just a few years, the heat of the sun triggers a chemical reaction that causes the wood to blacken, decay and eventually collapse. Result: a sudden epidemic of leaky buildings, expensive repairs and bitter lawsuits...
Makers and suppliers of FRT (fire retardant-treated) plywood, which was used mostly in houses east of the Mississippi, insist that the product is perfectly sound when properly installed. But homebuilders who used the wood during the 1980s housing boom are taking the manufacturers to court. In New Jersey alone, 45 lawsuits have been filed seeking damages that could amount to more than $130 million...
Body Shop's 300 products derive mainly from plants and are not tested on animals. They come in simple plastic bottles that can be taken back to any one of its 464 stores, most of them franchises, for a discount on the next purchase. The shops boast distinctive wood decoration, but endangered tropical hardwoods are banned. Store-window displays protest the slaughter of whales and the dumping of wastes in the North Sea, and leaflets urge customers to help save the ozone layer. Roddick insists that her stores use recycled paper for everything from stationery to toilet tissue...
...value of these individual actions is abundantly clear. Making newsprint from recycled newspapers uses half the water and energy and causes 74 percent less air pollution than making it from pulp wood. Making glass from recycled bottles reduces energy consumption by nearly half, water consumption by half, air pollution by 20 percent and mining wastes by 80 percent...