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...Szaky's office could pass for a landfill. Szaky, 24, the co-founder and CEO of plant-food manufacturer TerraCycle, sits in a chair that was at one time another firm's trash, next to a computer on a desk that were both once trash, and, with near palpable enthusiasm, draws supply-and-demand graphs on scraps of paper to show why he's so fond of building his business out of trash. "What is garbage?" he asks, marker in hand. "It's any commodity with a negative value, right? It's something you're willing...
Instead of holding a rally, the group plans to place pink toy soldiers and a fact sheet detailing the history of military recruiting at the Law School on the desk of every first-year law student. Lambda also plans to have a table where students can send letters to their representatives in Congress and urge them to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell...
...your single room, contemplating ways to undercut your friends’ (read: competitors) extracurricular ambitions, these people will have a litany of experiences that are both enriching and rewarding. But wait 10 years and see who’s laughing, when you’ve got your own desk on the 50th floor and they’re off “making a difference,” whatever that means...
Sometime during the five hours he spent pinned in the wreckage of his car, grievously injured and delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended [an error occurred while processing this directive] to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western...
...lost in the compromise on how the CIA may handle its alleged terrorist detainees, reached between the President and Senate mavericks John McCain, Lindsey Graham and John Warner? It's hard to say, and lawmakers may still tweak the bill before it lands on Bush's desk. But here's a tally of what the President, Senators and detainees did--and did not--get last week. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] The President The Senators The Detainees What They Won The CIA can continue interrogating suspected terrorists in secret jails, with interrogators given legal...