Sohlman says that with research and innovation, it's H&M's hope that it will eventually be possible to close the loop on material waste.
But even allowing for the fact that it would never be possible to close the entire gap, those figures give a sense of what resources could be mobilised with a determined crackdown.
Indian Point has its share of backers, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has questioned whether it would be possible to close the plant anytime soon, given the large share of the city's energy it provides.
"How will it be possible to close the case by collaborating with those who have denied any part in the bombing?", asks Sergio Widder, the Latin America director for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
But a review of city finances shows that it should be possible to close the gap without severely curtailing basic city services, laying off large numbers of city employees or imposing tax increases as large as those of the early 1990's.
She waited for a week in constant pain before another surgeon finally examined her, only to tell her, as the American doctors had, that it would be better for her to take drugs to try to shrink the tumors before surgery because they were so large that it would not be possible to close the wound.
