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People in the German border town of Passau probably don't think of themselves as champions of the euro. Yet this August they scored a victory for Europe's single currency. On a warm Friday afternoon, about 500 people drank beer, ate bratwurst and--for almost five hours--blocked a road into neighboring Austria. Their target: the high price of gasoline in Germany, which, thanks to taxes, is about 20% more expensive than in Austria. Every day an estimated 2,000 German motorists fill up at a BP station across the border in Austria--at the expense...
...dogs ate people...
Larry Stark’s 1970 critique of the McDonald’s Nation, “One Culture Under God” is a stunning document in itself. There are four prints from this journey cross-country in which the artist ate only at McDonald’s outlets, foreshadowing Supersize Me by over 30 years. Even in 1970 below the golden archways was proudly emblazoned “Over 5 billion served...
...actually visit some of those tourist attractions. Every morning was the first decision of the day: did we want croissants and a nice single-stall with a self-warming seat or donuts with a full row of toilets and automatic faucets? Often, we’d choose both: Isaac ate second meals like a hobbit, which doubled our food budget. I fretted about the money, yet went to bed smiling...
...private lives could quickly become as we give away more and more of them to third-party entities in exchange for convenient services. It pays to wonder, if just a little, whether a particular search might come back to haunt you, or who might know that you ate dinner at Adams in violation of interhouse restrictions. And maybe, for now, it pays for the unfaithful among you to wait the extra 3 minutes at the toll booth on the Mass Pike, particularly when driving down to New Haven every weekend to visit that girl you met at the Yale Game...