Word: plastic
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...nation had hoped. Since Mob hit men assassinated presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in August and ignited Barco's offensive, the leaders of Colombia's coke cartels have gone into hiding, forfeiting posh estates and bank accounts; some law- enforcement officials believe that the drug princes have even undergone plastic surgery. Nevertheless, Gacha and company remain immensely powerful, with their pipeline to the U.S. merely dented and their profits still enormous. And in the past two weeks they have demonstrated that they do not care how many people die in their showdown with the government to see who really rules...
Environmentalists can suggest a multitude of ways to do that: recycle paper, aluminum, tin, glass, motor oil and car batteries. Reuse bottles, containers and shopping bags, or at least choose paper bags over plastic at the supermarket. And do not be fooled by the BIODEGRADABLE label on some new plastic products. They may not in fact break down, and those that do may take as long as 500 years. When something tears, wears or breaks, repair it instead of replacing...
Companies can also reduce costs by cutting back on elaborate packaging for their products. Paper, glass, metal and plastic packaging constitute 50% of U.S. garbage by volume and 30% by weight. To help shrink the mountains of wasted material, manufacturers should concentrate on using recyclable packaging. Procter & Gamble is test-marketing the use of recycled plastics in detergent and fabric-softener bottles. The firm says 70% of its packaging is made from recycled paper. Also, grocers could market more foods in bulk, requiring customers to supply their own reusable containers...
Beatings. Mass arrests. Rubber, plastic and lead bullets. The Israeli army has deployed all these and more against the Palestinians in a futile effort to smash the revolt that erupted in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Dec. 9, 1987. In the two years since then, Israel's politicians have bickered endlessly and fruitlessly in the search for a solution. The intifadeh goes on, the deaths go on, the Arab-Israeli stalemate goes...
...selections from three different plays, what the characters say and do often makes no sense. During the two-and-a-half hours of performance we meet a man who is willing to pay for the privilege of staying in a hospital, witness a failed double suicide attempt with plastic bags, and listen to the ramblings of a man obsessed with diseased dogs and ready to fight for the right to sit on a park bench...