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Show Teen. Examiner The news page written by and for On The Net czm S22S2S20 txstandard.net "TP tk http www standard net WeberDavis teens -- Phone: 625-421- O Lakeside Review m m , 1 776-495- 4 1 ! Thursday, April 16, 1998 REVIEW: RECYCLING Wondering which nail polish is best? By JOHN VAN HORN TX correspondent By MARCUS WHISLER 'ust ask Ol Mr. well. Teens: Cartoon by CHANTRY DEWEESETX correspondent SV fI SPEAKING OUT: By SUNSHINE NAKAE IX correspondent do What k, tires, tin cans and tag board all have m common? They are all recyclable. Why dont we recycle? It seems pretty silly to bury useful items and to throw away resources. We as teens need to step forward and take an active role in preserving the resources of our future. If not us, who? Our parents are not going to care when we have scanty supplies of trees and oil while were knee-dee- p in plastic. What can teens do to help the environment? That all depends on how committed we are to our Earth. If we are Jitterbugs with poor attitudes, theres not much hope for a cleaner tomorrow. But if we are conscientious and we can help a great deal. More communities across the nation See NAILS1 0 TX. CHAT Meet the mystery moderator in TX.s online chat session, 8 p.m. each Wednes- day on StandardNET at www.stan-dardne- t. Next weeks topic: Earth Day: Is it worth it? Or try out the TX. prom survey www.standard nellx. The Bottom L0C3E When young and impoverished, artist Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings. . at are offering curbside recycling. This is a great way to get more people to recycle. My city does not even recycle newspapers regularly. I am ashamed to say that when I lived in the Pacific Northwest, I recycled nearly everything. When I moved to Utah, I began throwing away milk cartons, oil, tinaluminum cans, glass and plastic containers again. I even throw away paper at school; something I never used to do. My school is not big on recycling. Ive seen high schools with bins for paper sacks, juice boxes, cans, cartons, foil and glassware. Why doesnt my school recycle? Not enough students really care about recycling. Too many of us just think out of sight, out of mind, or maybe we dont even think twice about the trash we toss. The day will come when no one will be able to ignore the garbage. Sure, we can bum it, but how long until we bum a hole in the sky? How long until we run out and wish wed been a little more conservative? It is time to take action and start preserving our future. We need to take Time to think about better care of the Earth and make it a personal responsibility. Start small on your quest to do better. Dont Utter! People who litter are careless and lazy - thats a fdet. By not littering, or by picking up garbage, you can make a difference. Its not a fun job, but carrying small plastic sacks in your pocket helps cut down on germs. Put the sack over your hand and use it as a glove when you pick up trash. The sack also encourages others to help you and add to your collection. One funny way to be a garbage buster is to go down a hall or street where the people who littered are still there lingering among their trash. Then pick it up right in front of them and theyll look at you like youre nuts. They might give you a scrunched-u- p face, but youll make them think twice about littering and youll remind them that someone has to pick it up some time. If you really care, the next step is to get active in school. Go to your school leaders and ask about a recycling program. If you already recycle paper, See RECYCLE10 By UNDSAY LEININGER 11. Properly dispose of your oil, if you change the oil in your car yourself. Officials at city hall can tell you where to dispose of it. 12. When you buy a new car battery, take the old one to a battery-makshop and recycle it Interstate Batteries in Bountiful is a good place, or check the phone book for a place near you. 13. Buy rechargeable batteries. 14. Take shorter showers. 1 5. Use an electric weed wacker instead of a weed wacker. There are many more things that arent covered, but if you do three of these per day the earth will look, smell and be better than before. Youre not only helping you, youre helping your future kids and grandkids. For more information about recycling programs near you, contact your city hall or county er offices. John Van Horn, a senior at Bountiful High School, trains in karate Amencan-do- . He says he likes to write and participate in theater. dont cheat. Tuck is flip1 I What going to do today? The possibilities arc endless: frolicking among the clovers, licking a delirious, sloppy ice cream cone, running through the sprinklers in bare feet . . . Wrong! Along with clovers and ice cream comes that time of j car teens dread. Spring cleaning. The spring cleaning epidemic probably attacks you something like this: Youre in your room, jamming with the radio, dancing in front of your mirror, when in comes - oh no! - Mom, and shes armed with an apron, a feather duster and an economy-bottle of Windex-o-Ramsued Honey, she says, smiling sweetly (but you can sense a hidden plot behind the sweetness). I have a great idea. Why dont you clean your room toa. day? Ick. The radio music dies, and suddenly you realize that life is more than lemonade. Weakly, you drag your lifeless body from its collapsed position and feebly accept the feather duster, the cleaner, and even the apron. But cleaning is not all that bad (these I Dont litter. your room spring-cleanin- g TX corespondent Spring 10. our future pro-activ- e, Other average scores were: for the Erica Jill company, a sparkly forest green, 2.4; Sally Hansen Wired company, 2.8; Wet n Wild company 596, an aqua hue, 3; Wet n Wild 407a, looks like wet confetti, 3.2; and finally. Wet n Wild 455a, looks like green apples, 3.2 Gothic Haven: The black tints and hues of the Gothic Haven category all had pretty ugly scores. Zaudcrs black scored a total of 3.4 and a 4 on I LAMMABILITY. Urban Decays UZI, a steel gray-blacscored a 3 overall, and Wet n Wilds 424 black had a final are you doing, this in the trash? Take that out and read these tips. Since its close to Earth Day, we teens need to think about what we can do to help this needy world, and here are some ideas from people in our community that we could do on a daily basis to save energy throughout the day. 1. Recycle your stuff: aluminum, milk jugs, plastic bottles, newspapers, glass, cans, boxes. Call city hall to find out where your citys nearest recycling center is located. 2. When you brush your teeth, turn off the water when youre not using it. 3. Dont use plastic or paper dinnerware. 4. Turn off the lights when youre not in the room. 5. Turn off the TV or radio when youre not around. 6. When you use paper, use both sides, and when youre done with your paper take it to a recycling place. 7. Carpooling saves gas. 8. Reuse clothing or give it to a distribution center. 9. Know what youre going to get out of the refrigerator before you open it. What TX correspondent Fashion Tips. I have devised a superb rating system to relate which nail paints should be religiously used and which ones you should avoid like the plague. My rating system is based on a numerical standard, with 0 being the best, or most, or easiest, and 5 being the worst, least or hardest. Each set of ratings was added together for an overall score - the lower, the better. I then divided my rainbow collection of polishes into six types, each judged on five categories. The types of polish, according to my own color-code- d system, are Glitter Explosion, Gothic Haven, Blue Grass, Dandelion Dreams, Purple Escapes and Green Expectations. The categories are: WEAR, length of time before polish chips. SMELL, how annoying the vapors are. REMOVAL, difficulty of, how long you have to scrub at your nails before the color comes off. COATS, number of times you have to apply the polish before you obtain the desired hue. FLAMMABILITY, how many seconds before the polish spontaneously combusts due to extreme heat exposure. Overall the best color and company to purchase a polish from is Ethniques 419 black. Nail Scents Orchid, any of the Dandelion Dreams or Brauns Darth Vader. Glitter The first lab rats were from the Bon Bon company. WEAR: Bon Bon glitters received a 4 because they began to chip the next day. SMELL: The Bon got a 5, because they are potent, and plus, my nose hair hurt afterward. REMOVAL: The Bon Bons struck again with another 5. Why? Because the bloody polish was already chipped off but what little was left took some hard scrubbing to get off. COATS: Its about time this Bon Bon crud scored something good. On this category it got a 1 because you only need two coats. And thats a good thing. Bon Bons were never meant for pyros. It took about seven seconds to catch fire and it lasted about one second, so for FLAMMABILITY it scored yet another 5. That made the total score an average of 4. This was the worst score, not only for this category, but for all the others as TIPS: in all the comers and smooth out the bed spread. Your mom will notice that microscopic wrinkle underneath the pillow. 2:04:20 Now go back to that card- - ; board box. Sort everything into piles: Clothes, Papers, Miscellaneous, Gar. bage and Random Bumto Extracts. 2:57:16 Grab some hangars and put away all the clothes. No, no, not like that! Button that shirt! Fix that collar! 3: 1 8:44 Put the stack of papers on your desk to organize later. Throw the garbage in the garbage can. Keep all the miscellaneous items in the box to accumulate into a lovely stack of odds and ends. Maybe one day you can turn it into a scrapbook. 3:29:09 And finally, with the last bunt of courage you can muster, dash, ' to the garbage can and ceremonially sprinkle in the Random Bumto Extracts. 3:30:00 Hooray! Youve accomplished the impossible. Youve achieved the unachievable. You've mastered your destiny and contributed in a small way to the great mystery of humanity and mankind. Youre a hero, kid. And finally, when you relax and ponder over your room, the work of beauty you have just created, smile and remember these words from moUvational speaker John Bytheway: A clean rug is a happy rug. Lindsay Leminger, a senior at Bonneville High School, loves to h rue, ski, and play golf, piano and violin. -- I'm ouita'lierc! X nrV- "rt-- - Cartoon by CHANTRY DCWCESCTX owrespondenl are subliminal messages from your mother now), so lets make the best of it. Chances are, your room has survived a war-zon- e hurricane of dirty clothes, tattered homework assignments, d containers and Post-I- t notes. Theres a broken shoelace strung across your mghtstand. Underneath that stack of books is a squashed burri-t- o and a couple of stale tatcr tots. Movie ticket stubs from last August are piled up on top of those ragged jeans with the spaghetti stain and the gym clothes you forgot to wash. And the closet . . . well, we all know what lurks in the closet. Lets not go there. But honestly, you can change your life in just 3 12 minutes with a swift fast-foo- cleaning of your room. All youll need is an old, damp rag, a few cardboard boxes, a garbage can, and your best running shoes (you know, to sprint around in). 3 12-MInu- te Mirada Cleanup 0.00.00 First, pick up everything lying on the bed, the fioor, in the closet, or on the dressers and toss it into the cardboard boxes. When youre done, put the boxes aside. 0:39:52 OK, now grab that damp rag and wipe off every counter, every dresser top, every shelf, the windowsill, the frame of your bed, etc. Make sure to get the top rims of picture frames where all the dust hangs out. 1:12:36 Make your bed. Come on, awe-inspin- |