At 04:10 PM 3/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Why would you restrict contributions to the new time capsule to not
>include plastics?  Some plastics are stable enough that they will not
>damage other items in the capsule and survive themselves.  Of course, any
>attempt to give an adequate refleciton of late 20th century life must
>include plastics (even if we consider that infoprtunate , it remains true).
>  Dan Freidus
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Since we are soliciting items from the general public, trying to control
WHICH plastics would go in would be difficult. You're right about the lack
of plastics giving a false impression, but the committee in our library
putting this together thought it best to avoid the issue all together.