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Especially in his matter-of-fact approach to practical matters, Eighner depicts the stark reality of homelessness. For example, his detailed instructions on how to scavenge food safely from a dumpster points out the relentless struggle for basic survival far more effectively than any Dickensian description of gnawing hunger. The details of setting up camp in a public park or washing up in a bar's restroom gives the book a firm foundation in day-to-day reality, which is quite remarkable in itself and needs no further embellishment...
...problem with the blueprint, Rizzo said, is that students and visitors exiting Memorial Hall to Kirkland Street in the future will see two large industrial service bays, "replete with an adjacent trash dumpster" on their left...
...called Bobby Is Fred. He makes his living stuffing burritos at a Del Taco in Los Angeles. Unlike wannabes who prowl Sunset Plaza looking to get noticed, Bobby craves obscurity. He enjoys saying his favorite activity is eating at such trendy restaurants as Spago -- by serving himself from the Dumpster out back. "Look, this is a nation of disenfranchised kids," says Bobby. "The reason we don't talk to the mainstream media is because we want to guard the few places that we have left, like our zines." But the secret is getting harder to keep. A budding zinemeister...
Perry and Auterio admitted taking one watercooler each from a loading dock next to the LawSchool's Harkness Commons after Commencement lastJune. Both men said they thought the coolers weretrash, and Auterio actually returned his to a LawSchool garbage dumpster more than a month beforeUniversity police began investigating the case
...scene outside a posh new smoke-free office building in West Los Angeles is typical. Smokers who want to light up have to go out back, near the delivery-truck entrance, and gather next to the Dumpster. Yet Susan Castor, a production assistant for a cable-TV company, has accepted her thrice-daily trips to the Dumpster with surprising equanimity. "I'd just as soon smoke out here and not have my smoke bother anyone," says Castor, who describes herself as a light smoker. "I think it should be that...