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...Sunday night, Harvard police recovered a strange envelope from a dumpster outside The Crimson's building at 14 Plympton...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Cryptic Note Found; Killing Perhaps Planned | 5/30/1995 | See Source »

Where he got most of the unusual furniture in his room: Adams House trash, Quincy House trash, Lowell House trash. I got a pull-out couch from a dumpster. You have to be euxpetitious with your time and resources. One man's trash is another man's treasure, and I've got a hell of a lot of treasure...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: Profile: who is that masked man? | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...funniest one I ever saw," recalls one veteran security employee, "was in this dumpster by the Kennedy School. I thought it was rats at first, but then I realized it was bigger than that...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Coitus Interruptus | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...services department, there are currently 1,200 children in foster care, wards of the city because their parents neglected them. There are currently only nine "border babies," infants born to drug-addicted mothers unable to care for them. In just four well-publicized cases were kids actually placed in Dumpsters this year, which is shocking enough. Yet because of liberal policies, Gingrich said, "we say to a 13-year-old drug addict who's pregnant, 'Put your baby in the Dumpster; that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Newt's Believe It or Not | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...unluckiest panhandlers can make enough for a meal; at Taco Bell on Hollywood Boulevard, for example, a burrito costs only 59 cents. Then there is "table scoring" at fast-food restaurants: snatching unattended food from the tables before it is thrown away. Those with stronger stomachs engage in "Dumpster diving" for meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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