Amnesty has a lot of interesting connotations, from an official legislative act by which recognized authorities restore legal remembrance of an offense to the annual “amnesty week” a local public library hosts for those who may have forgotten to return those books on memory loss checked out six months earlier. Ironically, amnesty stems from the Greek word for oblivion, amnestia, which also serves as the root word for amnesia.
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The pleasant news came as a mild surprise: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had decided to levy a maximum fine of $32,500 on a California company, Jet Ocean Technologies, for improperly exporting a shipment of discarded CRT displays to Hong Kong.
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Attendees at the recent Redemtech company picnic were presented with bird feeders as part of the company’s overall message to be good to the environment. It took less than a day for the acerbic, acrobatic squirrels that creep into my back yard to disassemble the bird feeder and chew a hole in the side of it. And these guys are part of the environment we’re trying to rescue!
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