http://www.plastic.com/ Politics, Culture, Point Of View en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:28:19 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=10/07/30/03591165 Plastic::SciTech::Technology: Wal-Mart didn't get to be the world's largest retailer by not keeping up to speed with modern business practices. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:57:12 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=10/07/30/03580694 Plastic::Politics::Manners: A coffeehouse. A long tradition, and a required stop for the hapless tourist visiting Vienna, for sure, but something that belongs to times long past, when gentlemen still had time to discuss the gossip and newspapers at length and in a smoky haze. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:03:42 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=10/07/29/02035131 Plastic::Politics::Politics: So it's back to the road again, for President Obama, in what is dubbed the "Summer of Recovery" drive Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:03:58 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=10/07/29/02043856 Plastic::FilmTV::Fashion: Utopia, you mutter, dosed by yet another fine example of managerese in the e-mail which just popped up in the right-hand and down-below corner of your enterprise-approved operating system (no free styling for you, no sirree). Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:02:05 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=10/07/29/02023923 Plastic::Etcetera::Sex: a www.bbc.co.uk link Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:23:59 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=10/07/27/02545240 Plastic::Politics::Terrorism: Since 9/11, America has been growing its intelligence establishment phenomenally quickly. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:55 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=10/07/27/02555768 Plastic::SciTech::Environment: "No, pleads Monsanto: these are not GMO seeds, they are conventional hybrid seeds"