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...graduate student at Syracuse University when she realized how much colleges throw out unnecessarily. In 1995, ?Boragine ventured into a Dumpster in search of a lost ring. "I was floored by what was in there," she says. "There were TV sets, an unopened case of ramen noodles and a cigar box full of rare stamps." She went on to found Dump & Run, a nonprofit that has advised more than 30 institutions on how to salvage what students jettison, including some truly trashy items. "Someone at one school brought in a 3-ft.-tall in?flat?able Jesus," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumpster Diving: Colleges Get Smart on Salvage | 6/7/2009 | See Source »

...always going to do,” Tischfield says. “I’m definitely going to have a kiln in my backyard. I can totally see myself doing what my neighbor did—being a 45-year-old doctor, coming home after work, lighting a cigar, turning on the radio, and throwing some awesome pots...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: David J. Tischfield ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...their inhaler (“Guard it with your life!” Zhou remembers Kamler warning.).Le Whif, simply put, is an inhaler that contains about a gram’s worth of extremely tiny particles of chocolate. The holder is about the size and shape of a cigar, with colored tips that indicate the specific flavor inside. At one end of the plastic tube is a compartment that contains thousands of chocolate bits—small enough to aerosolize, large enough to linger in your mouth and not in your lungs. To use it, take a light drag?...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chocolate Lovers: Get A Whiff of This | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...pens, several of which cost more than $100,000, $4 million worth of custom tailored clothes, a silver set allegedly belonging to Paul Revere, and two purple Jaguars with hand-painted leopard-skin roofs." It should be added that Ruth Madoff once gave her husband a $14,000 cigar humidor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spot a Ponzi Con Artist? Follow the Yachts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...Watchmen, founded in 1940 as the Minutemen. In this parallel nation, in the Times Square revelry on V-J day, a nurse was kissed by the slinky superheroine Silhouette. J.F.K. greeted Dr. Manhattan, the preternatural, irradiated blue man, at the White House and was gunned down by the splenetic, cigar-chomping Comedian. A U.S. astronaut walked on the moon and found Dr. M. waiting for him. In 1971, President Richard Nixon sent Manhattan and the Comedian to Vietnam; the war was over within a week, and Nixon was elected to a third term. The Watchmen were feted everywhere, until Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen: Hero Worship | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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