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...condition began when I read of a couple??in New York City who had vowed to live a whole year without toilet paper. They were conducting an experiment in environmentally low-impact living as research for a book, they said. For a year they would eschew transportation that emits carbon dioxide, shun foods wrapped in plastic packaging and, most dramatically, conduct the elimination of their waste without the aid of wasteful paper products. I mull the logistics of paperless hygiene as I load a family-size pack of Charmin Ultra Soft into my Subaru Forester. According to the plastic packaging...
...Killing Devices); each, independently, has decided to retire from the killing game. Both are then marked for "extraction" by their agencies (they know too much). To survive, the assassins must knock off the five top section bosses of their respective outfits in Colonial Williamsburg and rustic Zhukovka. The odd couple???Dirty Eddie and cosmopolitan Vasily?get to pool their talents through a seductive Washington connection named Chalice, whom they also share...
...salary or, in some cases, depending on the course load, a salary and a half. James Carley, 31, a teacher of medieval literature who shares an appointment with his wife Marjorie Woods, 30, at the University of Rochester, has no trouble rationalizing the situation. Says he: "A traditional academic couple???the husband teaching, the wife at home?would get only one salary anyway." Another advantage of job sharing is the flexibility it affords. One Stanford team, Anthropologists Renato and Michelle Rosaldo, changed from full-time and part-time posts, respectively, to three-fourths of a slot each. The reward...
...stars and the tops of green hills." So affected is she by a vast amount of this sort of phraseology that she returns to Edinburgh as his dutiful wife, bears him a child, and dies as a consequence. Her death only serves to accentuate the happiness of the couple???to demonstrate that Carlyle was right...
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