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Kathy Kelly: More from Kabul -- The legacy of the Butter Battle
… made by the Italians, Czechs, Chinese and Russians, Soviet fragmentation bombs, Soviet plastic explosive fragmentation bombs, US Claymore fragmentation bombs, plastic land mines from Iran and Pakistan, British and Egyptian anti-tank mines, plastic explosives from Italy, Belgium and Pakistan, plus mortar bombs, rocket propelled grenade …
Kathy Kelly: Latest from Kabul and Afghan Peace Volunteers
… wall as it often does, the three of them switched to a makeshift game of ping-pong using their plastic sandals as paddles, while Rahim climbed to the top of a tree, walked confidently on the …
Archaeology expedition creates hope of God's plan for all of us
… in the 21st century will be on their knees digging through ancient landfills, finding our plastic picnic forks, our dead computer keyboards, our cheap costume jewelry. And they will …
Great Pacific Garbage Patch keeps growing ... and growing ... and ...
… the size of Texas." According to the Telegraph: "The abundance of small human-produced plastic particles in the NPSG has increased by 100 times over the last four decades," said a … nets and other litter can be found in the gyre, much of the patch is made of small floating plastic debris, mostly hidden to the naked eye, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . Instead, the particles are the result of a degradation of plastics, resulting in the microscopic particles that commonly float just below the ocean's …
Silence about the global treatment of women is disquieting
… from either the rapists or certainly of the husband?" The woman raised herself up in the old plastic chair. "Men," she said, "must begin to believe that women are human beings. They must …
Mercy sister overcomes rough start to thrive in education
… loved both girl and boy toys. My father built me a small storefront, and my mom bought me a plastic cash register. I was very tiny for my age. People saw me as verbal, precocious, animated …
God rides the R train
… his legs. He sat next to me, by the door. His daughter looked up at him and pointed to a plastic bottle he held in his hands. She wanted a drink and he would smile and slip the straw in …
Where is Easter for those on the cross?
… world, shoppers mindlessly acquire more stuff. Some of it is made from fossil-fuel plastic, wrapped in unsustainable paper packaging. Many bargain-hunters don't seem to realize the …
Philippines' Earth Chapel is country's first solar-powered church structure
… to build, Jakosalem told NCR . The money for the chapel came "mostly from the sales of the plastic bottles we have collected," he said. The solar panel was donated by the university's …
Life Lab introduces the wonder of Mother Nature to Ohio students
… reason to be proud. In 2009, Srs. Jeremias Stinson and Grace Ellen Urban built a polyhouse , a plastic greenhouse-type garden that produces vegetables year-round, and give their harvests to a …
To the [eco] links: The Lorax, Santorum and a wondrous waterfall
… - in a new approach toward movie tie-ins – focusing on planet-saving activities rather than plastic toys in kid’s meals. [USAToday.com] Presidential candidate Rick Santorum created a lot of … Canyon [Nytimes.com], while some college students have sought to issue a ban themselves of the plastic containers on college campuses, a campaign none too pleasing to the International Bottled …