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Trashed Cash: Coveted Currency Meets an Unceremonious End PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Alison Fromme   
Tuesday, 22 November 2005

You likely get crisp new $20 bills when you withdraw money from an ATM. As you spend your dough, wrinkled smaller denominations take their place. But—assuming there’s money in your account—ATMs continue to spit out new bills, whereas tattered cash seem to vanish. Where do threadbare bills go?

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City Hopes to Stop People from Throwing Drugs Down the Drain PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Lorraine Sanders   
Friday, 13 May 2005

The words “hazardous waste” prompt images of toxic green sludge oozing from shadowy industrial complexes, used syringes washing up on beaches and other such horrors. But San Francisco City and County agencies are worried about hazardous waste spilling from a site much closer to home: your medicine cabinet.

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