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...global market for environmentally friendly products is worth an estimated $200 billion a year, and has just begun to take off. Every potential innovation, whether a new kind of windmill or biodegradable plastic made from plants, is attracting attention from companies in a host of industrial nations. The U.S.'s Du Pont is in a race with Germany's Hoechst and Britain's ICI, among others, to develop replacement chemicals for ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs). Germany's Siemens is vying with such firms as Amoco in the U.S. and Sanyo in Japan to produce cheap, efficient solar electric cells...
Anyone who has been near the seashore lately -- or listened to Jacques-Yves Cousteau on TV -- knows that the oceans are a mess, littered with plastic and tar balls and rapidly losing fish. But the garbage dumps, the oil spills, the sewage discharges, the drift nets and factory ships are only the most visible problems. The real threats to the oceans, accounting for 70% to 80% of all maritime pollution, are the sediment and contaminants that flow into the seas from land-based sources -- topsoil, fertilizers, pesticides and all manner of industrial wastes. Coral is particularly sensitive to sediment...
...ORIGINAL MOBY-DICK A white Leviathan played the title role. In the 1956 film the part was taken by a large piece of plastic. In Ray Bradbury's 27th book, John Huston plays the elusive quarry...
...Usually in the trunk of a car or quite often in a secret compartment built under the bed of the truck and bolted in. They would come in, and they'd take this wide plastic tape, shipping tape, and they'd tape you up. Then they would wrap a towel around your head this way and over your eyes. You were just like a mummy...
Most shocking is the evidence the defense never presented. A few days after the murder, Keester Shortridge, who lived near the McCoys, found in the back of his truck a plastic bag stuffed with blood-soaked lilac sheets, two Van Heusen cowboy shirts and a pair of scissors. Instead of calling the police, Shortridge buried the bag in a landfill. A few weeks ago, Jordan signed an affidavit stating that he too knew about Shortridge's discovery of the sheets prior to the trial. "I considered the information useless," he stated. Under the Supreme Court's current interpretation of habeas...