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...Binks! Exskweeze me! Me-sa needing never-ending snow cone and a giant gumdroppa palace, but in this economic climate, I hardly believe it would be worth the long-term effect to our investment capital to build an underwater rollie coastie. O-kee day? [2] 5. Ahem, the problem with Harvard’s student body is that we have too many do-gooders and not enough projects for them. Enter the “Sisyphean Institute for Public Works”. Imagine one student group running a soup kitchen with a rival group training Business School students to steal...
...corporate program was officially launched in December, but even before then, a few firms had taken the, ahem, leap. Since 2005, Jody Wallace, who owns a PIU franchise in Ohio, has hosted about two events a month for local divisions of Procter & Gamble, GE, Yellow Book and Ryan Homes. She says she got the idea partly from watching parents sheepishly try out the equipment at their children's parties. "They got just as excited as the kids," she says...
...from Helen Thomas, the grandmother clock of the White House press corps (as in, much loved but slightly erratic). And he took questions from reporters from the four big networks, CNN, Bloomberg, the New York Times, the Washington Post and NPR. There were big-city newspapers he overlooked (plus, ahem, newsmagazines), but giving the Huffington Post a question seemed to be more gestural than suggestive of an unwillingness to work with the mainstream media. As if to prove this, the next day Obama came to the press cabin of Air Force One and started joking with journalists from...
...Jeez, still?" Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up. Apart from that, my week using it was not unlike a regular workweek. Here's the, ahem, rundown...
...Jurassic Park scenario - complete with flying pterodons and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs - remote. Still, scientists see the completion of the genome as the first step to uncovering and understanding the reasons behind the mammoths' extinction, and the effort has brought the cloning question back to the public's mind in a (ahem) mammoth...