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...Wrap socialism, feminism and environmentalism into one person's sensibility, and what you're likely to get is a lousy dinner guest -- someone who will find alienation in a Johnny Carson monologue, pesticides in an arugula salad and phallic symbols in the latest James Bond movie. But in contrast to some of the solemn ideologues who share her causes, Barbara Ehrenreich is a leftist with levity, so don't get discouraged about the title of this provocative new collection of essays...
...Federal Trade Commission has started looking into other manufacturers' degradability claims as well. Barry Cutler, director of the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection, says "several major companies" besides Mobil "have advised us they will stop making environmental claims." Dow Chemical has reportedly removed such labels from its Handi-Wrap plastic wrap...
...have a range of at least 930 miles or more before falling into the ALCM category, and the Soviets insist that the range of 370 miles or more has already been agreed upon. Predicts a top U.S. START negotiator: "We'll get over it." U.S. negotiators hope to wrap up START negotiations in Geneva in time for the scheduled June summit meeting between Bush and Gorbachev...
Today's news, it is often said, is used to wrap tomorrow's garbage. But here is a tale with a different twist: an article that long ago ended up on the spike now makes a sidebar to the biggest story of our time...
...what of the man behind the painting? MacLeod, who interviewed Mandela's comrades from Britain to Africa, says, "I came away impressed by how this man burdened with problems has remained very much the head of his family. Even from prison, he managed to buy and wrap Christmas presents -- a box of chocolates for his wife and earrings for his daughter...