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Michael D. Smith faced more than a difficult market when he moved into the basement of his wife’s brokerage firm to start up a computer security business. First a steam pipe in the ceiling broke, flooding the basement with scalding water. Then the sewage backed up into the office. “When you start a company, you find space wherever you can, no matter how disgusting and smelly it is,” Smith says of the business, Liquid Machines Inc., which has grown from two to 60 employees since it debuted six years...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dean Stands on Business Smarts | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...about a dozen competitors, which use tape, tension, suction, weights and straps to gently coax the skin to expand over time. Among the options are the Tug Ahoy, T-Tape, VacuTrac and, of course, the 4restore and TLC Tugger - which Low, an industrial engineer, invented in his Northbrook, Ill., basement when he lost sensitivity in his mid-30s. "It certainly doesn't make any sense to me that nature would produce a part that is harmful," says Low. "Foreskin feels really good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Uncircumcision Debate | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...dinner cocktails, the Alpha Omega Club, tel: (86-10) 6612 9898 is on the west bank of Shichahai and within walking distance of Nuage. A pop cover band plays on the first floor, a jazz band on the second, and there's a DJ and dance floor in the basement if you can squeeze through the crowd. If you still feel like having fun afterward, go to Party World, tel: (86-10) 8857 6566, a karaoke franchise with locations across the country. Get a private room and sing until dawn. There's a buffet available after midnight if you need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Night in Beijing | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...offer you a ride, but his gf gets dibs on the back seat...One punch event went foul when the ladies organized an event in Boston that none of their under-21 punches could enter. After lounging outside for a while, everyone headed over to their favorite final club basement, which is where they really wanted to be anyways...Literal punches were thrown at the Kong on Friday night, as a crew of Kirkland ladies jostled with townies in the upstairs room. Final tally: townies booted out, students stayed. Cambridge 0, Harvard KO...Rumor has it there was a fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chatter | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

Travis H. Bleidt, a bartender, came up with the idea of giving away food and prizes in the restaurant’s basement bar to attract more customers. Uno’s plans to continue hosting “Soxtober” as long as the series lasts...

Author: By Shan Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Capitalizes On Sox | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

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