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...very end of every school year, on a big campus, it's like 10,000 evictions are happening at the same time," says Jeff Ferrell, a sociology professor at Texas Christian University and the author of Empire of Scrounge, a book on Dumpster diving. "What do you do with all that perfectly reusable stuff that gets tossed?" The answer, increasingly, is to start a collection program like TCU's Trash to Treasure...
...most perplexing thing about this low-key but abrasive concoction is that it was scripted by two estimable writers: Dave Eggers, nonfiction author (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), novelist (You Shall Know Our Velocity), magazine editor (McSweeney's) and a Time 100 laureate; and Vendela Vida, nonfiction author (Girls on the Verge), novelist (And Now You Can Go) and magazine editor (The Believer). Their published work usually softens and complicates any sweeping judgment about people by honoring their eccentricities. Why, then, are they so dismissive of Lily and Lowell, L N and Rod, and so adoring of Burt...
Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention of Air, and a co-founder of the local-news website outside.in...
...blossoming, with rolling German farmland in the distance. "There's a certain irony about the beauty of the landscape and the horror that took place here," Obama said after walking through the grounds, as puffy white seedlings floated through the air. Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author, who had been a prisoner at the camp as a teenager, walked with Obama. "If these trees could talk," Wiesel said...
...insurers, both in the U.S. and abroad, have yet to acquiesce to calls from the American Medical Association and others to divest their holdings in companies such as Reynolds American, Lorillard and Philip Morris. Many insurers cited in the letter say the study wildly overstates their investments, but the authors disagree. "Insurers continue to put their profits above people's health," said Dr. J. Wesley Boyd, the lead author of the report. "It's clear their top priority is making money, not safeguarding people's well-being." (See pictures of vintage cigarette ads touting their "healthiness...