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Time to actually put that orgo textbook to some use other than as a doorstop. Load two plastic book bags with desired number of textbooks (we recommend starting with 1 book in each bag for CS concentrators and up to 10 in each bag for government concentrators). Sit on the edge of your seat with your back straight and feet flat on the floor. Beginning with arms straight and books on the ground, slowly curl arms up to shoulders, pause, and then lower back down. Repeat 20 times...
...morning of Dec. 8, several dozen volunteer newsies spread out across San Francisco to hawk copies of the city's brand new newspaper, the San Francisco Panorama. The 320-page doorstop, printed in full color on old-fashioned broadsheet paper, sold for $5 on the street and $16 in bookstores. With articles by Stephen King, Michael Chabon and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Robert Porterfield, the Panorama was an homage to the increasingly threatened - some would say obsolete - institution of print journalism. The paper's entire print run sold out in less than 90 minutes. (Read about the future...
Turns out, the Cambridge Fire Department and bomb squad were merely responding to a call from an elderly couple...trying to get rid of a cannonball. We know, right? The surprises just keep coming. The couple had, for many years, used said cannonball as a doorstop in their home, but on this fateful evening of October 26, 2009, they decided it was finally time to let go of their beloved iron friend...
...sure that the sales of the book will especially be to libraries of various sorts, and most of all to college and university libraries, because that’s basically the biggest single customer base for big doorstop reference works of this kind,” says Lawrence Buell, Professor of American Literature, who contributed an entry on Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Movement. Citing the price as an investment the individual customer would not perhaps make, he explains, “I’m not trying to sound critical of what the book’s attempting here...
...which kids and critics alike appreciated less as a live-action comic book than a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Supporting Actor), the film was shut out of all major award categories, taking seven other doorstop prizes like Sound Editing and Sound Mixing...