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… bathroom, I said, "Joanne, I just met Frank. He bought you these new clothes." I hefted the plastic bag over the top of the stall, and her hand came up to grab it. I said, "You can put your … back toward the stalls, Joanne emerged from hers. She had her new outfit on and carried the plastic bag full of her old clothes. She stuffed a huge wad of paper towels into the trash can. …

… his glasses up sideways. It looks as if something has taken a bite out of the piece of the plastic temple that ought to cover the right hinge. The missing part broke off about five weeks …

… of growing up. If he were speaking today he would probably say that it is more radical than plastic surgery or even sexual reassignment surgery. It’s the opposite of a witness protection …

… took the buckets upstairs to take showers before school. We knew how to take a shower with a plastic cup. You have to put soap on and then we all use water this way because you don’t want to … dream of citizenship and a home of their own. She will still wash her hair with water from a plastic cup, as she does today. “Alex asks me how come I still do it this way every night. I tell …

… baby seat trembling slowing across the vinyl floor. My hands shook as I unbuckled the plastic clasp of her tiny seat belt, scooped her out of her chair, crushed her to my chest and …

… activities include over-fishing and pollution from oil, sewage, fertilizer, detergent, plastic and marine debris. Rising, warming, acidifying, polluted seas contribute to migration, … the U.N. Secretariat building, there were depictions of various fish constructed entirely of plastic and metal pieces found floating in the seas. Visitors also waited for an opportunity to …

… January challenge had students count how many days they can go without purchasing a single-use plastic item, while another asked them to find entrepreneurs in their community who were turning … if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I made it five days without buying a single-use plastic item! #iggycarbon #:) — Quinn Carr (@quinncarr123) January 15, 2017 One of the more … that day, dumped it onto tarps inside the school commons, and began sorting it between plastics, trash and uneaten food. The visual caught the attention of their peers as they walked …

… highlighted by Francis in the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation message — avoiding plastic and paper items, reducing water usage, recycling and composting, carpooling, planting …

… Bowery in New York City. You can spot them by their enormous height and their ever-so-slightly plasticized deep green. When I see them, I think of the cemeteries filled with plastic flowers, the Halloween decorations that fill up landfills in November, or Christmas wreaths that do the same in January. I wish my grandkids didn't prefer the plastic Easter eggs to the ones I dye with beet juice. In posh New York City apartment buildings, …

… and this attracted me," said Fayez, who until then had been more interested in surrealist and plastic arts. Fayez said he soon started painting icons, as well as replicas of the wooden …

… a sign of God's blessing," he said. The rain forced many in the crowd to cover themselves with plastic ponchos, since umbrellas were not permitted for security reasons. Rodriguez read from …

… was not like applying make-up as a "trick to beautify the old curial body" or like undergoing plastic surgery to remove wrinkles. "Dear brothers, it is not wrinkles that the church must fear, …

… West of car travel, the 1960s. Back then, only the brand-new baby was strapped into a flimsy plastic car seat in between our parents in the front. Once a kid could sit up, our Mom tucked the …

… of fried chicken. The camera pulls out to reveal that they are gathered in the office, a plastic Christmas tree conspicuously blinking in the background. When the eating frenzy winds …

… building and saw a homeless lady sleeping on the lawn, her body partially covered by a blue plastic tarp. The only way I knew she was under there was that one of her hands and some of her …

… idea for an Election Day church service came to the pastor as he was pouring juice into little plastic cups. Mark Schloneger was preparing for Communion that day in 2008 in the kitchen of …

… to El Salvador, where they built 65 homes for families there. Before, the houses were made of "plastic and tin," said Acevedo. Scholarship recipient Ernesto Josué Henríquez Joachin is in his …

… evacuate. But when the storm hit and they were forced to leave, Esorcadas wrapped his son in a plastic bag with his head exposed, put him in a tote bag that he slung over his shoulder, and …

… years ago and, as she says, she's been living with "a hose in her nose" ever since. A 50-foot plastic cord connected to an oxygen-producing concentrator in our living room gives her access to …

… and I ended up investigating our own trash. For one week, we tracked all our waste production: plastic bags, banana peels, straws, toilet paper and more. At every turn, I seemed to generate more waste. Never before had I thought twice about fruit produce stickers or plastic clothing tags. Seven days later, our lists revealed a stunning quantity of trash. The … of garbage are not going anywhere. Hundreds of my baby diapers, chip bags and countless other plastics will never biodegrade. My produce bags are going to exist for centuries after my death. …