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...fresh plump strawberries ($5), and shows off her hot-off-the-shelves purchase, a thrift-store turquoise dress with a brown stain to boot ($6 or $7, she estimates). “I am a hypocrite,” she says, adding that she’s tried dumpster-diving and sewing her own clothes. “To right now divorce myself entirely from the market economy and to retreat into a cottage somewhere to grow my own food and feel less guilty about myself...would be a very insular way to make myself feel good...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: J. Claire Provost | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...ready. The protest had been organized in a day, after that morning’s edition had broken the news that the Harvard Corporation was planning to hold on to its shares in banks linked to South Africa, news that an intrepid reporter had gotten by climbing into the dumpster outside the University printing plant out past the football stadium...

Author: By William E. Mckibben | Title: What Happened to Changing the World? | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...finding a convenient, theft-proof parking spot. "When you can find a safe parking spot on the street, it's often 100 feet or more from your destination; and if there is secure bike parking, it's usually behind the building near the weeds next to a trash dumpster," says Russ Roca, a local photographer who doesn't own a car and hauls up to 200 pounds of equipment on his bike's trailer attachment. "Bike riders are treated like social pariahs and second-class citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Valet Parking Could Save the Planet | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...SHREDDER They cost as little as $15, and you'll never have to worry about Dumpster divers, who sift the trash for discarded financial statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: 'Tis the Season for ID Theft | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

Dunster House: 1. Also known as “Dumpster House.” 2. The building shown on every postcard that you will send home...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

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