Word: dumpster
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...During Wintour's time at Vogue, Tina Brown was editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. She was, arguably, just as famous. Ten years later, having written a best seller, Brown is editor of an upstart website. With an office that looks onto an alleyway and a dumpster. Grace Mirabella, Wintour's predecessor at Vogue, started her own magazine, which folded 11 years later. It's hard to think of one name-brand magazine editor who has maintained her prominence or transferred her influence to a new industry after leaving the job. Male editors routinely get positions of authority...
...book is impressively understated in its desire to actually impart wisdom. It's more a collection of mini-profiles on fascinating senior citizens - the aforementioned Granny D., whose advanced age does nothing to lessen her spunk, the self-obsessed actress Sylvia Miles, and the simply bizarre hitchhiking, dumpster-diving Eugene Loh. The inclusion of Alford's elderly mother, who decided to divorce her second husband days after he was interviewed for her son's book, serves as the project's poignant spine. How To Live provides many answers (which essentially means it provides no answers), none of which are wiser...
...Freecycle encourages people to give away unwanted items rather than toss them in the dumpster. The group was founded in Arizona in 2003 by Deron Beal, an employee with a local recycling non-profit who had committed his life to eliminating unnecessary waste. The first incarnation of this online community involved only about 30 people - and Beal's desire to give away a used bed. But that initial gang of recyclers are now joined by more than 4,600 local Freecycle groups spread out across 85 countries. A University of Iowa study analyzed the average number and weight of items...
...radical demonstrators, the simple presence of GOP delegates was enough to justify throwing bricks through storefronts and a delegate-bus window, lighting a Dumpster on fire, and damaging police cars. Police responded with force, using pepper spray, tear gas and, in some cases, rubber bullets while arresting nearly 300 demonstrators. At least 130 of those arrests were on felony charges, and the National Guard was called to quell violent demonstrators after the main march concluded...
Anoshechkina says that as a freshman she started “screaming and crying” on housing day when she found out she would be spending her remaining Harvard years in a House many refer to as “Dumpster...