Word: checkout
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...fine, but every minute you spend online--playing chess, talking politics or just shopping--is a minute you're not spending off-line. And it is off-line, in the real world, where we find a precious social resource, people we have little in common with. The supermarket checkout lady, the librarian, the shoppers at the mall--all are handy reminders of the larger community we're part of--multicultural, socioeconomically diverse yet bound by a common nature...
Paper or wheat? That's the checkout quandary you may soon face now that the first plastic made from such environmentally friendly crops as corn, wheat and soy is almost ready to go into mass production. Polyactide - or PLA in plastic-speak - is the result of a heated race among chemical and bioengineering companies throughout the past decade to reap the environmental cachet that would come with the first "all natural" plastic. This week, Dow Cargill Polymer, a combined effort of Dow Chemical and Cargill Inc., prompted sighs in the Monsanto and DuPont boardrooms when it announced that it would...