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...survey covered topics ranging from the distribution of reusable plastic John Harvard mugs to the drawbacks caused by widespread food and napkin waste and by Harvard decentralized dining system...
...PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE HOLE IN THE EARTH'S protective ozone layer is a group of man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), used in refrigerators, air conditioners and plastic foams. The chlorine released when these compounds decompose attacks ozone, letting dangerous ultraviolet light from the sun shine through...
...store's buyer travels to countries asdiverse as India, Indonesia, Czechoslovakia, thePhillipines and China, as well as to a number ofAfrican nations. The buyer's finds--whose pricesstart at around 50 cents--are made of glass,porcelain, gold, silver, wood, plastic andsemi-precious stones in every imaginable shade andcolor...
...Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn't know himself. But the antique mold was a perfect receptacle for some of his plastic obsessions, such as the human back, and for the Arcadian vision he inherited from the past and shared with other avant-gardists like Stravinsky...
...DONE IT FOR YEARS. GENERAL ELECTRIC began doing it two weeks ago. Now General Motors is offering its own high-powered credit card to boost sales of its products and grab a share of the $485 billion market for plastic money. The auto giant said holders of its new GM MasterCard would earn 5% rebates on purchases made with the card, up to a maximum of $500 a year or $3,500 over seven years. Card-holders could apply the rebates toward the lease or purchase of new GM cars and trucks -- except for the hot-selling Saturn, which...