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...Still, the orphanage staff prepared him as best they could: They packed a small box with two sets of clothes for him to take, and his favorite toys, especially a small plastic piano. They also taught him a few phrases of English "How are you?" and "What's your name...
Thinking Outside the Box...
...Right now I have a box of CD cases that I took out of someone’s trash,” says Lanoue. “It takes a lot of self control. I’ll go by someone’s trash and it’ll take me talking to myself, convincing myself to not take some of the stuff back...
Gerber's scheme, a former insider at the department tells TIME, "was to short-circuit the money before it reached the university" and thus have his department directly receive payments. To bypass the university's accounting service, Gerber had one of his secretaries rent an outside post-office box under the name "Tulane Pathology Group." Bonnie Jones Jackson, who was in charge of billing for the department, said she was sent twice a week to pick up checks from the mail drop. At first she did what she was told without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur...
...Improbable as it may seem, this unprepossessing town of moldy red-tiled villas surrounded by virgin tropical forest and white-sand beaches was named, a few years ago, as the world's most expensive city. With a bunch of carrots selling for $10, a box of eggs fetching $13 and rent on a medium-sized house touching $6,000 a month, it's still comfortably in the top 10. The reason? Port Gentil is a ville petrolier, an oil town that has drawn rig workers and executives from places as far away as Texas, Aberdeen and Caracas to earn fortunes...