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...Yellow lettuce salad with creamy Italian sauce in a plastic container, boiled corn and carrot nibblets, plastic-wrapped flat bread with chunks of stale walnuts, stone-hard long grain rice, and barbecue sauce in yet another plastic container. Margarine, salt, and black pepper...
...election, of course many of my acquaintances made cute jokes about my election to Congress. After the series in the Times, I again became the butt of jokes. My colleagues at work served me with a fake subpoena. At a party, a friend made a big show of putting plastic handcuffs on my wrists. And I once again began to get those knowing smiles and astonished looks when I was introduced to strangers...
...winning product for the season so far appears to be Power Rangers action figures, the '90s answer to the Cabbage patch craze of the mid-'80s. The small plastic Ninja figurines are already sold out in most stores...
Thousands of furious travelers were forced to scramble for flights on other airlines in hopes of finding an empty seat during the year's busiest week of travel. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a woman clutching a wedding dress in a plastic bag sobbed as she learned her flight to Antigua was disrupted. Elsewhere, many of American's 200,000 daily passengers camped out on concourses, their luggage serving as makeshift pillows. In Dallas one harried American ticket agent was at the end of her rope: "I just called my husband and told him that when I get home...
...toughest job may be replacing the solar panels -- two 40-ft.-long "wings" that provide power to the telescope. During the full day needed for this task, Thornton and Akers will precisely follow hundreds of steps, using bolts, electrical connectors, Velcro and 84 sq. yds. of plastic. And somehow they must do it all while swathed in their thick space suits -- a condition astronauts jokingly compare with being mummified...