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...friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company - called, natch, Remarkable - has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil cases and mousepads, and printers into pens, creating bright new products emblazoned with declarations such...
...light of the fact that we had our third coach in three years and that we hadn’t had a particularly great season the year before, we couldn’t have dreamt of doing any better,” co-captain Rick Offsay said. “It was the perfect way to end off our career and leave this place with the water polo program back to where it was our freshman year...
...although his final outing didn’t turn out the way Crimson hopefuls dreamt it would, there’s still plenty for the veteran to hang his hat on. Given an Ivy championship and his leading role on the team, Morgalis surely got what he had hoped for from this season, if not more...
...upon hundreds of musicians out there who can scream through blatantly personal songs about girls they dated or political issues that anger them, but precious few can truly illustrate a life that they themselves never led. Perhaps Meloy himself put it best in his “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect”—performed near the end of the set—when the narrator of that song, like Meloy himself, becomes lost in intricate fantasies of being a soldier in a perfumed Polish town, an accomplished builder of balustrades, and a womanizing Spanish...
...Chattanooga Springs” is one of the most reflective and haunting pieces in the show. Set to the Decemberists’ “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect,” it uses the setting of classic small-town America to comment on the corruption of modernity. Through the loss of its characters’ innocence—a boy takes a swig of alcohol for the first time, another takes the orange that a blind girl is carefully peeling and bites into it almost maliciously—the piece becomes a bittersweet expression of regret...