Word: cardboard
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...being sufficiently eaten, those who live the unleavened life (not quite the Miller High Life) have to find ways to part the sea of blandness to arrive at the promised land of taste. “You can only eat so much matza because it begins to taste like cardboard,” Denenberg notes. That’s why he creates a HUDS matza pizza using organic pasta sauce and cheese, because after all “matza tastes like crust.” Valkin, for his part, uses peanut butter to symbolize the mortar our fathers used...
...Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered police to resolve the standoff peacefully, and officers throughout the day communicated with Ducat by holding up cardboard signs. Though he said he had enough food for two days, Ducat reached an agreement that afternoon to surrender...
...economic downturns, low literacy rates, and a lack of publication opportunities for Latin American authors, Javier Barilaro and Milagros Saldarriaga did what many artists would do; they decided to put their talents to work for social change. But instead of painting or sculpture, they chose a less orthodox medium: cardboard. In a week-long series of events in the Center for Government and International Studies sponsored by the Cultural Agents Initiative, a Harvard-based group promoting social change through art in developing countries, Barilaro and Saldarriaga discussed how they turned trash into publishing houses, and how their projects...
...Solo cups,” she says. “They’re something that’s really huge.” The dining hall offers Harvard students another opportunity to pull ahead in RecycleMania. “We have recycling for all our cardboard, all our metal cans, all our glasses and recyclable materials,” says HUDS Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin. According to Martin, students should try to minimize waste by choosing reasonable portions: “We provide lots of sizes of dishes in the dining area...
...Holden Green to take a report of suspicious activity. The officers arrived and spoke with the reporting party who stated that after turning on their furnace they smelt cigarette smoke. The officers checked the basement and observed a sleeping bag, blankets, various clothing items, alcohol bottles, and a cardboard box that contained cigarette butts. HRES was notified and arrived on scene. The officers checked the basement doors and found them to be unsecured. HRES secured the doors and will return to clean the area...