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VACATION CRUSH CLOGS AIRPORT

Atlanta Journal Constitution
June 16, 2007 - Any violations of the rule, and the security officers must unseal the bag, inspect the contents and throw away items outside the limits, he said. Passengers should have the bags out and ready to put on an imaging machine. One-quart bag per person limits the total liquid volume each traveler can bring. > Consolidate bottles into one bag and X-ray separately to speed screening. > Be prepared. ...
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Toddler served margarita in a sippy cup

St Paul Pioneer Press
June 16, 2007 - ...plastic bottles, and the manager mistakenly grabbed the margarita container to pour the boy's drink, said Randy Tei, vice president for Apple Bay East Inc., which owns the franchise restaurant and nine other Applebee's in the San Francisco Bay area. The Mayorgas will be reimbursed for their medical bills, and Tei said the franchise group's restaurants will no longer serve apple juice and margaritas in similar containers. "We absolutely believe it was an honest mistake," Tei said....
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Facility falls into new role for NASA's moon plans

The Virginian-Pilot
June 16, 2007 - The cameras could record 1,000 frames a second, storing enough data in four seconds to fill a DVD.And the air bags? ...
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Get It Together To Protect Important Documents

Tampa Tribune
June 16, 2007 - ...plastic bags can tear. And the seal is only as good as your squeeze, so check and double-check that you've zipped well. Wait till the bag is thoroughly dry before opening because drops of water pool at the zipper and may trickle in.Igloo Wheelie, Cool 42, $26.99 at TargetPROS: A cooler will float in floodwaters, is portable, can hold bulky valuables and can be put to other practical (and more fun) uses in the off-season. An Igloo spokeswoman recommends buying one with a......
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Plain Dealer, Cleveland
June 16, 2007 - The apple juice and margarita mix were stored in identical plastic bottles, and the manager mistakenly grabbed the margarita container. ...
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Facility falls into new role for NASA's moon plans

Virginian Pilot
June 16, 2007 - Using air bags for a ground landing, Jones said, could eliminate the expense of building a new spaceship for each mission. One of the orange air bags lay over the edge of the boilerplate, limp and deflated, clearly a casualty of the short flight. The force apparently had ruptured a smaller interior bag, known as an "anti-bottoming bag," that is supposed to prevent the spacecraft from dragging on the ground. ...
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Feather in cap of researchers: Scientists in a lab at Virginia Tech are developing a way to turn discarded feathers and eggs into biodegradable plastics that are cheaper to make than traditional ones.

The Roanoke Times
June 16, 2007 - ...plastics, he said.That could take the form of a new enterprise seeking to capitalize on this novel product, Spencer said. Or an established company looking to replace the cost of buying petroleum chemicals.Barone is working with the horticulture industry, where his biodegradable plastics could be designed for short-term uses such as plant containers or mulching film.But he also envisions broader uses for his research -- plastic bags, adhesives or containers......
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AN END TO LANDFILLS: Ch?vez Has Goals for Garbage

Albuquerque Journal
June 16, 2007 - The initiatives bring diversion rate to 8 percent.2009: Launch public education and commercial recycling programs; expand automated curbside program; start material recovery and compost facility. Diversion rate rises to 18 percent.2010: Expand commercial recycling program; develop a product stewardship program. ...
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California lawmakers give light bulbs a reprieve

The Sacramento Bee
June 16, 2007 - ...the bill as a backdoor ban on incandescents and the latest link in a chain of bills that intrude upon consumer choice. "Sacramento keeps getting into people's knickers," said Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine. "We are getting into ever-increasing levels of detail in demanding how people live their lives." Besides the light-bulb bill, the Assembly voted this month to require toilets that use less water, ban restaurants from using trans fats, and to create a $250 million program to......
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Shell shock: A fossil rises: 30-million-year-old prize discovered in

The State
June 15, 2007 - ...plastic bag and a handwritten index card in a recloseable bag reading, "Do Not Touch," marked the spot where amateur fossil hunter Paul Bailey made the discovery of a lifetime -- the intact shell of a 30-million-year-old leatherback turtle.Thursday, a team of experts and volunteers, led by Jim Knight, director of collections at the State Museum, worked to excavate the fossil for further study.This ancient shell, about 5 feet by 4 feet, is smaller than modern leatherback......
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