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SELLING out on environmental issues means settling for compromises that we can't afford to accept. Last year students in Dunster House tried to persuade dining hall administrators to stop using disposable plastic plates and dishes at breakfast. Lunch and dinner at Dunster are served on reusable plates, we argued. Why can't breakfast...
...nothing else, students should celebrate Earth Day by vowing to forego paper cups in the dining halls in favor of reusable glasses and mugs. Students should also do without plastic shopping bags and should use the recycling bins in their entryways to recycle newspapers, white paper, glass bottles and aluminum cans...
...body of a high school girl, wrapped in plastic, washes up on the lakeshore near a small town in the Pacific Northwest. An FBI agent teams up with the local sheriff to investigate. The victim, they discover, has been leading a secret life. So, it seems, is nearly everyone else in town...
Survivors of a genocidal war, Cambodians carry traumatic psychological burdens. Sometimes it seems as if the war has quite literally followed them across the sea. In the municipal cemetery in Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit, piles of pennies. They are the offerings of bereaved Cambodian parents to the spirits of four children who were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese...
Police say Gonzalez has confessed to filling a plastic container with $1 worth of gasoline at a nearby station, then splashing it through the club's front door. He threw a lighted match into the gasoline and watched the flames rise...