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...backs. Rap is also a worldwide fashion commodity. Local variations of the basic American street outfit -- baggy pants, pricey sneakers, hooded sweatshirts, flashes of jewelry -- turn up everywhere, from dance clubs to fashion layouts. Yves Saint Laurent produces golden belt buckles with his logo writ large, Public Enemy-style, and Karl Lagerfeld loads his Chanel models with enough baubles to sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part...
...hopeful for tomorrow," Yves Gagnon, a Canadian spokesperson, said yesterday. But, he added: "Anything can happen. There is no sure...
Anyone who has been near the seashore lately -- or listened to Jacques-Yves Cousteau on TV -- knows that the oceans are a mess, littered with plastic and tar balls and rapidly losing fish. But the garbage dumps, the oil spills, the sewage discharges, the drift nets and factory ships are only the most visible problems. The real threats to the oceans, accounting for 70% to 80% of all maritime pollution, are the sediment and contaminants that flow into the seas from land-based sources -- topsoil, fertilizers, pesticides and all manner of industrial wastes. Coral is particularly sensitive to sediment...
...their study, which was reported in the research journal Science, Michigan's Yves Poirier and his colleagues capitalized on the environmental know-how of a select group of bacteria. In much the same way that humans store excess nutrients as fat, these germs turn sugar into the plastic molecule polyhydroxybutyrate, or PHB. They can also digest the polymer, which means it is biodegradable...
...single file out to the driveway, then ordered to lie face down on the pavement and surrender their weapons. "One of the policemen began to kick us as we lay there," he says. "I received a kick in the face, just under the eye." Theodore's bodyguard and friend, Yves Jean-Pierre, was killed by gunfire. "I didn't see Yves shot," he says, "but others did." One of the policemen, he continued, "suggested they finish us with a grenade." Just in time, uniformed police ordered the plainclothesmen to put their weapons on safety...