A story with some currency today but really incredible. After all the fuss about the use of plastics and the clamp-down on the use 
of plastic carrier bags, a schoolboy from Canada working on a science project has worked out what the world’s chemists could not. Daniel Burd isolated the bacteria that will degrade plastic in a few weeks rather than the tens of thousands of years predicted. Dan has developed a method that can easily be adapted to industrial applications.
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In recent years there has arisen a trend for organisations to be so fearful of litigation that previously sociologically acceptable behaviour is amended to what they consider will be less offensive to any theoretical thin-skinned minority which may or may not actually exist. This trend has become labelled, “Political Correctness”, or PC. Originally, PC served a positive and useful purpose, challenging out-moded traditional customs of thought and behaviour that failed to adapt to a rapidly changing, inclusive society. But the term has itself become anachronistic and is used lightly in parody, or scathingly in lambast, to describe the ludicrous bureaucracy and abuses of petty power that result from the misapplication of correction. Politically correct is now a 
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Walt Disney originally planned to name his famous cartoon mouse “Mortimer” not Mickey!
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