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Berry said that during this semester's finals week the dining services will sponsor a late night deli bar and a taco bar in selected dining halls. By the beginning of fall semester, new recycling bins and new plastic cups will be in use at the Freshman Union, he said. If the new recyling program works well in the Union, it will be expanded to the Houses, Berry said. (See related article...
...credit card, no American is too poor to acquire a small fortune in debt. U.S. consumers were carrying $279 billion in obligations on their credit cards as of February. To exploit that vast market, credit-card companies are offering ever more imaginative inducements to pull out the plastic...
California may be the land of health and fitness, but even the well-toned gods and goddesses of the Golden State are respectful when they heft the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times. Swathed in plastic or tied with string, the paper contains an average of 444 ad- and information-packed pages, and most weeks weighs in at more than 4 lbs. On April 7 readers unfurled their papers to find a handsome addition: a redesigned, upscale Sunday magazine bursting with national ads and feature-length stories calculated to showcase the best of the Times's 900 editors, reporters...
...recession and gulf war have cemented the trend. First, the economic downturn struck some people as a just punishment for a dizzy era of excessive borrowing and spending. Many consumers saw the recession as a warning that their behavior had to change. Cutting back and putting away the plastic seem only prudent. Unemployment, currently at 6.5%, has risen steadily for eight months. Some people who used to ride in limousines are now driving them for a living. Then the life-and-death reality of the war came along and made the pursuit of glitz and status seem even more trivial...
...that storybook vision, a certain 12-year-old girl last week clung fiercely to the ritual. After giving birth in the early hours of the morning in her bedroom, after cradling the 6-lb. 10-oz. boy until dawn, after carrying him into the hallway, stuffing him inside a plastic bag and throwing him down a garbage chute, the little girl did the only thing that made sense in her life. She went to school...