Word: styrofoam
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...wondering what life would have been like if I had known all of this four years ago--that you don't really have to dial five-five-thousand, just zero, that you get cancer if you put lemon in your tea in a Styrofoam cup, that people are still looking at your freshman facebook picture when you are a senior...
Their suite is now virtually paneled in styrofoam, giving it the look of a high-rise ig100, but "there's just about no way he can hurt himself," says Arthur Demarest...
...fully alone. Women who have had the temerity to try to travel as if they were ordinary people, like men, quickly grow thick-skinned. They commiserate in shorthand: "It's worse in Rome." "At least you're not blonde." They occasionally long for a male companion or a large styrofoam dummy of one. Guidebooks, including the one put out by Harvard Student Agencies, warn them in passing that it's hopeless to get mad at an entire culture. They are rarely in any real danger--any more than at home--and righteous indignation proves extremely difficult to maintain...
...aboard People's el cheapo $149 Newark-to-London flight, and the mood of most of us is light to the point of giddiness. Who cares if it costs $3 to check a suitcase? Most of us are traveling light. So what if instead of the free, creamed-Styrofoam bits that most airlines serve for meals, we have to pay $6 for a boxed lunch? Leg room is minimal, every one of the 390 coach seats is occupied. But we are flying in a real 747 jumbo jet, and 6½ hours from now we will arrive in England...
...half years ago, the 325 employees who manufactured paper egg cartons at a Diamond International plant in Palmer, Mass., faced a cloudy future. Styrofoam containers were creating stiff competition, the recession was biting into profits, and with the American economy worsening, workers were suffering a bad case of unemployment jitters. Recalls Daniel Boyle, personnel director of the Diamond plant: "Relations between labor and management were strained at best...