http://www.plastic.com/ Politics, Culture, Point Of View en Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:11 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=08/05/09/14181937 Plastic::Media::International: Someone thinks the key to the ugly mood is that Americans see a new world order coming into being and that it is being shaped in distant lands by foreigners. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:16:12 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=08/05/09/14181582 Plastic::SciTech::Animals: As it turns out, while not the scientist, Ogden Nash had it more right than wrong with his ode to one of the oddest animals on the face of the earth. Australia's very own duck-billed platypus is an anomaly as it is part mammal, part bird, and par Thu, 08 May 2008 14:08:47 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=08/05/08/14100849 Plastic::Politics::International: Former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo, head of the left-leaning Patriotic Alliance for Change coalition, has won the presidential election in Paraguay with 41% of the vote. Blanca Ovelar of the conservative Colorado Party, which had ruled the country Wed, 07 May 2008 14:03:30 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=08/05/07/14045136 Plastic::Music::For Sale: The new studio album by Nine Inch Nails, The Slip, is being offered for download on the internet for free Wed, 07 May 2008 14:01:46 +0000 http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=08/05/07/14031526 Plastic::Politics::Politics:Democrats: Barack Obama won in North Carolina by 232,000 votes, winning 56% of the vote to Clinton's 42%. Hillary Clinton won in Indiana by 22,000 votes, getting just under 51% of the vote to Obama's 49%.