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...This was, of course, in the days before I took Foods and Nutrition I (the best class I took in high school), so I cut a few corners. Yeast, for example. How important could that be in the grand scheme of bread? So I forgot to take the plastic covering off of the ham and didn't preheat the oven, but what are details when it comes to love...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: A Sonnet in Vain | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

Eventually the trees and their stalactites of dried resin fell, some of them ending up buried in soft sediments at the bottom of still and shallow bodies of water. There, over millions of years, the molecules of resin gradually amalgamated into long, durable chains, creating a material remarkably like plastic: airtight, watertight, chemically inert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREVER AMBER | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

Biodegradable plastic to replace the petroleum-based polyethylene now used in food containers and disposable diapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...know that game "Mousetrap," where a little marble careens through some crazy maze, tripping switches that makes levers drop, catapults launch, springs sproing, weights fall, and a little plastic mouse get trapped under a plastic yellow cage? Well, that was a fun game, and Jeunet and Caro's The City of Lost Children is the French translation...

Author: By Dan Williams, | Title: City of Lost Children Offers a Feast of Surreal Treats for the Eyes | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...whole seat but you'll only need the edge. It's good old-fashioned eye candy, and your money won't be wasted. The movie may be pure escapism, but by the end, when the final marble falls into place, you'll be looking out from behind those plastic yellow bars...

Author: By Dan Williams, | Title: City of Lost Children Offers a Feast of Surreal Treats for the Eyes | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

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