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...easy to fix because CFCs are ubiquitous in almost every society. They are used in refrigeration and air conditioning, as cleaning solvents in factories and as blowing agents to create certain kinds of plastic foam. In many countries CFCs are still spewed into the air as part of aerosol sprays...
...Poland, most households have CFC-based refrigerators and others badly want them. Neither country has put in place a system for recovering the coolants. Says an official at the Ministry of Environmental Protection in Warsaw: "If we are not able to solve the problem of disposal of used bottles, plastic items and batteries, what can we say about the proper disposal of refrigerators...
...just breasts. Parts of one's face also need to be retouched. A plastic surgeon on the Oprah Winfrey show was extolling the virtues of his "quick 'n' easy" silicone-injected lips...
With the commencement of the insanity trial of Jeff "the Chef" Dahmer, the nation has once again dipped its curious hand into the blue plastic barrels filled with rotting flesh and bone...
...literary magazine and crosses out all suspiciously surnamed acquaintances from his address book, but also finally smashes all jars of imported food in the house, even the Bulgarian apple jam. The life of a third character is so drab that even a tiny gift from Paris, a red plastic spoon, lends his days a sudden radiance...