Word: carting
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...stored 10,000 of their most prized pieces, including Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges, a 4-ft. (1.3 m) marble statue found "lying on her side on a filthy brown-and-white mattress." The Monuments Men wrapped her in coats, paper and rope before placing her in a cart. "I think we could bounce her from alp to alp, all the way to Munich, without doing her any harm," an American conservationist said at the time. Instead, they sent her to Belgium. After two years in a cold, dark mine, the Madonna was home...
...Department of Agriculture reported that 35.1 million people relied on government help to buy groceries in June - 713,000 more than in the previous month and a 22% jump from the previous year's figure. The odds are better than ever that when a shopper wheels a grocery cart to the checkout aisle, Uncle Sam is picking up the tab. (Read about the state of homelessness...
Wonder what those new carts are selling? Should you buy a Falafel or head back to your House for free HUDS? To make the decision easier, we've got a handy map that shows what food you can find where, and how much you'll have to shell out to get it. Just click on the cart or sign to see the menu. They're serving lunch every weekday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through the end of October...
...shopping week draws to a close, get ready to dole out the cash. Whether you balance brimming piles of full-price textbooks and novels in a snaking line on the Coop’s top floor, log on to Half.com or Amazon and fill a virtual shopping cart, or stop by Gnomon Copy to place an order for $300 worth of bound essays, book-buying is usually stressful and costs a fortune. The worst part: There’s a good chance you’ll never even crack open that brand-new copy of “The Order...
...there's one difference between industrial agriculture and the emerging alternative, it's that very thing: consciousness. Niman takes care with each of his cattle, just as an organic farmer takes care of his produce and smart shoppers take care with what they put in their shopping cart and on the family dinner table. The industrial food system fills us up but leaves us empty - it's based on selective forgetting. But what we eat - how it's raised and how it gets to us - has consequences that can't be ignored any longer...