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...After much dumpster diving and duct-taping, the four designers managed to straggle back to the Crimson (but, alas, not all by noon) with outfits in tow, and the show was ready to begin...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman and Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Competition: Metropolitan | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...years the floor show--rather, the parking-lot show--at the High Elevations Bar & Restaurant in the busy northeastern Pennsylvania village of White Haven starred Teddy, a bigger-than-average black bear that Dumpster-dived, chased his butt in circles and all but rode a tiny bicycle. That is, until some crackpot with a crossbow shot the 600-lb. (about 270 kg) creature dead early on the morning of Sept. 12. "Just a shame," says Tim Conway, a wildlife-conservation officer with the Pennsylvania game commission. "You always wonder who could do something like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting Big Game in Urban Areas | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...shop in late 2005, with Entwistle as employee No. 1. Next, a second temporary home in a worn-down office building abutting a sprawling slum. When rains flooded the streets, many employees chose to stay the night rather than wade through the filthy water. Entwistle points out the Dumpster that the firm donated to the block, as well as the spot where the generator truck running the trading floor used to park. "When you're working out of a dump, you know you've really got people's loyalty," Entwistle says. Another benefit, he notes wryly: "It's not hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking on India | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...book is hardly the work of some antireligious investigative reporter who Dumpster-dived for Teresa's correspondence. Kolodiejchuk, a senior Missionaries of Charity member, is her postulator, responsible for petitioning for her sainthood and collecting the supporting materials. (Thus far she has been beatified; the next step is canonization.) The letters in the book were gathered as part of that process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...changed when I came to America. At first I was too busy jamming to the guitar band at my parish to notice; I even joined the tambourine section. Eventually, though, the newly comprehensible sermons began to sink in. I clearly remember one involving a newborn baby left in a Dumpster that somehow in the end advocated against laws allowing abortion. There was that time you beseeched us, Father, to write letters of protest to a Senator who supported stem-cell research. Not long ago, your homily excoriated divorce. You used as your rhetorical cornerstone the 1998 Lindsay Lohan vehicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Confess, I Want Latin | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

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