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...One leading chemicals supplier experimented with replacing some of the 153,000 PFAS-based gaskets used in its German manufacturing plant....
...As an orange sun drops to the west, the woodpeckers, as well as the warblers, jays and chiffchaffs, start packing up their instruments....
...The custom part of the goggles is the gasket (the piece that creates a seal around the eyes); the rest (the glass, strap and temples) is mass-produced....
...The wood floors are a mass of lichens, white, pink and purple trilliums, sorrel, thimble berries, solomon’s seal, stinky skunk cabbage, rhododendrons, irises — and more ferns....
...“We’re passing the pain all the way through the supply chain,” said Pat Moody, president of Klinger IGI, a gasket and seal maker with $10m in revenue and operations in Oregon and Colorado, which makes components...
...Chief among those is the nearly 84 per cent stake in Lima-based Luz del Sur....
...“It was emotional but we had no choice,” says Aston’s managing director Dani Loughran, after packing off the last driver with a box of Tunnock’s tea cakes....
...It could also entail “packing the states” by awarding statehood to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and possibly the American Virgin Islands....
...My mind starts to free‑associate as I ride by the town of Sur. Thinking “Big Sur”, I conclude I am in California. Latin American names populate my brain....
...As well as those smiley face wax seals (which she gets from City Co Seals), Leahy employs a heat sealer gadget to fix her parcels (although anything other than packing tape will do), which are usually encased...
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...I go there to dig the garden, to make omelettes and fish stews, to row my boat, to put my feet up and read, to gaze at seals and sea birds, to remind myself that there is still order and beauty in the world...
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...But when download quality improves, will that finally seal the fate of the vinyl LP?...
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...A packing case, still addressed in a careful hand to Shackleton, is an invitation to dream. So is a row of boots, very worn....
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