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...Pencil cases fashioned from old tires. These eye-catching and eco-friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company?called, natch, Remarkable?has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil cases and mousepads, and printers into...
...would have blamed them for a sub-par performance. Traveling to Rhode Island and Connecticut for the last stops on the most grueling stretch of its schedule, the Crimson co-ed sailing team could have been forgiven for showing some signs of fatigue, despite the importance of the upcoming Atlantic Coast Championships. Instead, however, the team ended its series of marathon weekends with a bang, surging to a second-place finish in the Nelson Regatta at Connecticut College and missing first by only ten points—a performance that could prove to be important for the upcoming...
Many thanks for your recent op-ed (“Stemming the Tide,” Oct. 13), with its bracingly dire portrait of Harvard’s plague of student clubs. Its author, Adam M. Guren, shows an excellent and most perceptive contempt for the young. It is something I have experienced myself, this contempt, strolling through the Yard, assailed at all sides by bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary...
...Pencil cases fashioned from old tires. These eye-catching and eco-friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company - called, natch, Remarkable - has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil cases and mousepads, and printers into...
...quit acting after appearing in Ron Howard's Parenthood. "Movies like that are few and far between, and I knew there wouldn't be anything else worthwhile for an actor my age," says Phoenix. He was offered, for instance, a cross-generational buddy movie with Married with Children's Ed O'Neill, "but there was a lot of bananas in tailpipes and things like that. It didn't ring true, and I had a sense of wanting to explore true stories and true emotions. Even when I quit, I'd make up characters and scenarios and practice them alone...