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...waiter, "I'm Sheila, this is Bill. We're your customers this evening." Try that in Paris on that ornery waiter one is careful to call "Monsieur." In Paris the older generation -- not the younger -- can be so unfriendly that on Sunday at the big church of St. Philippe du Roule, one can witness a scene of uncommon standoffishness, even for Paris: at the point in the Mass when the priest says, "Now let us offer each other a sign of peace," nobody moves...
BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS 3 & 5 (EMI). The late, preternaturally gifted cellist Jacqueline Du Pre exudes sensitivity and breathtaking virtuosity as she teams up with pianist Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich on this digital reissue...
...improve that sorry performance, an unlikely coalition of ecologists and businessmen, nature lovers and profit seekers, has embarked on a campaign to give plastic foam and other plastics a second life. About 130 companies, ranging from blue-chip behemoths such as Du Pont and Dow Chemical to smaller firms like Wisconsin's Midwest Plastic Materials and Iowa-based Hammer's Plastic Recycling, are involved in reincarnating used plastics. Some 20 new firms are entering the business each year, according to the Council for Solid Waste Solutions, a Washington-based trade association...
...cause got a big boost last month with Du Pont's announcement that it would form a joint venture with Waste Management to build the country's largest plastic-recycling operation. The facility, which will open in 1990, will separate and clean 40 million lbs. of the material a year. But that will only dent the problem: the U.S. annually produces 1.6 billion lbs. of plastic soda, milk and water bottles, enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York City to Cleveland...
Recycling has another appeal to companies that use plastic: it is relatively cheap. Second-generation plastic costs 40 cents per lb., about 20 cents less than new, pure plastic. "Recycling is simply a good business opportunity," says Du Pont spokesman Paul Wyche...