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...Josh Burd, who will one day be rewarded with a MacArthur "genius" grant for coupon-clipping, which he will then exchange for three Fulbrights and a night at a Marriott. Years ago, by combining coupons, discounts, rebates and a CVS Extra Bucks card, he actually got paid $3 to buy a product that accentuates the curls of black women. He still owns that product, with the vague hope of befriending a black woman and inventing a time machine that goes back to 1977. (See how Americans are spending...
Josh gave me lots of detailed advice on coupon-positioning and expiration-date-hiding, but as soon as I got to CVS, I was overwhelmed by all the math and rules and price signs that screamed, Wow! Guiding me by phone, Josh let me buy some fish-oil pills that were 2 for 1. But the woman at the register mistakenly rang me up for both bottles of pills, and then I had to wait 10 minutes while a health-care-bill amount of paperwork was filled out. Ten minutes may not sound bad for $7, but it takes just...
...Village security guard's job is much like that of any cop on the beat. That afternoon Cooper investigated a report of suspicious activity from one of the neighborhood's few markets. (The suspects, sitting in a brown minivan, turned out to be selling state-issued cards used to buy food.) He continued his patrol, eyeing the men walking up and down the street. "If you notice a guy stopping and staring" at a house, Cooper says, "he's obviously up to no good." Especially suspicious are people who walk up to homes and stuff flyers into doors. Sometimes they...
...last day open, FlyBy tried to reach by 9:00 PM, only to be turned away by the closing staff as the parlor's first customers rejected in 27 years. While not the last customer served, FlyBy prides itself instead on being the first customer permanently unable to buy homemade ice cream on Dunster Street in 27 years...
...make it clear that their attitude is, 'Look, we won the election and, whether these guys participate or not, we don't care,' they made that very clear. The Republicans have offered very specific ideas, such things as medical malpractice reform; they've talked about portability where you could buy insurance across state lines, they've talked about making sure there were incentives for people to go into general medical practice. There are a number of ways in which the system can be addressed that would get Republican support. Republicans have offered very definite, concrete ideas, but they...