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...company contends the youths are misguided in assuming that paper wrappings represent a lesser threat to the environment than clamshell boxes. For example, polystyrene packaging can be recycled far more easily than the treated paper used for wrapping food. McDonald's recycles such containers from 500 of its 8,200 U.S. stores and expects to include 1,500 more outlets by the end of the year. After the material is broken down into plastic pebbles, it can be reconstituted into artificial lumber, trash cans and other plastic products. Says Shelby Yastrow, McDonald's senior vice president for environmental affairs...
...when a jury consisting of six whites, three blacks, two Hispanics and an Asian convicted the accused gunman of second-degree murder. But only one day later, the relief was replaced by dismay. A second jury acquitted Mondello, 19, of murder and manslaughter but found him guilty of several lesser charges...
While a Japanese collector pays $82.5 million for a Van Gogh and $78.1 million for a Renoir, many lesser sales fall short as the frenzied auction boom hits some bumps...
...such questions, Sununu brings voracious curiosity, a keen analytical gift and near total recall. Budget Director Richard Darman, Sununu's only intellectual peer in the Bush inner circle, points out that "Sununu is trained in fluid dynamics and has a good sense of the dynamics of a problem," unlike lesser minds, who "see the world in static terms...
Bush may be the perfect antidote to this culture, which economist Sylvia Hewlett, author of A Lesser Life, says has "taught young women to almost despise the nurturing role." Indeed, now that Bush is on her own, she is holding her own. Rather than hype fashion designers or choose new White House china (she is replacing chipped plates one at a time), Bush spends her days drawing attention to the homeless, AIDS patients, the poor, and those whose lives have been so impoverished they never learned to read. For Wellesley students, says Hewlett, Bush "has all sorts of wisdom about...