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...real lot of beautiful industrial landscapes. And I'm real interested in dental hygiene, so I'm going to have a chapter on that. Maybe something on fictitious archaeology: I'd like to bury some things, then wait a little while and dig them up. I like to photograph plastic people in little scenes. Then I might have a chapter on spark plugs. Kind of amazing things, spark plugs; our lives revolve around them...
...procedure lacked the drama of an epochal event. For 28 minutes, a grayish liquid in a suspended plastic bag dripped intravenously into the left hand of the child, who sat upright in a bed in the Clinical Center's pediatric intensive-care unit. That was it. But if the technique works as the doctors hope it will, the results could be little short of miraculous. Their patient may eventually begin to lead a normal life, without need for the costly and only partly effective drug now used to extend the lives of young victims of the disease...
Even more gross is Barfo, a gelatinous goo manufactured by Topps, the bubble-gum company. The fruit-flavored candy is packed in squeezable plastic figures that extrude the substance through their mouths. Says a seven-year-old who savors the stuff: "When I think about it, it's disgusting." That alone should guarantee boffo sales for Barfo...
Floods this summer may, however, have caused far less damage than they did last year. Many students took precautions such as wrapping their valuables in plastic garbage bags, and placing boxes as high from the ground as possible...
...fills bucket after bucket. But then he wakes up -- to a nightmare. For at Asokan's house in Madras, India's fourth largest city, there is no water. The tap has long been dry. So he must get up in the dark of night and, laden with plastic pails, take a five-minute walk down the street to a public tap. Since the water flows only between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., Asokan, 34, a white-collar worker at a finance company, tries to be there by 3:30 a.m. to get a good place in line. His reward: five...