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...dirty mattress on a steel frame. But enthroned on a makeshift table sits a workstation worthy of a cash-rich start-up. The man leans toward his crisp, new 19-inch monitor and gets down to business. He surfs to the archive of an online florist and peruses someone's recent order for roses, complete with a mushy love letter. But this man, a hacker who uses the online handle Eyestrain, isn't interested in the saccharine prose. He is focused instead on swiping the buyer's credit card details. "See? It's that simple," he says, as he cuts...
...when you have the stamina," says O'Shea, who usually works 13 hours a day. "Maybe when I'm 40 I'll get a chance to rest." A native of the New Jersey suburbs who majored in social studies at Wesleyan University, he was inspired by his father, a florist who "worked seven days a week until I was 15." This is O'Shea's first gig as a businessman; he still speaks like the cautious, probing technology journalist he once was. Maybe that's the key to winning investors: talk softly and carry a big idea. Or maybe...
...Norwegian couple making out, Brazilian basketball players scootering by and Cuban boxers hogging the snowboarding video game, I was once again reminded of how out of place I am among the athletically inclined. I was about to slink back to the fun-exempt press center when, just past the florist, I spotted three tiny 16-year-old gymnasts waiting for a manicure in what was an obviously desperate, misguided attempt to appear as if they had reached puberty. I decided to get a manicure and haircut at the Olympic Village barbershop to achieve the jock look I had always craved...
Smith bought his modest home in Wilmington in 1964. In 1970, at age 44, he married. His wife Carolyn worked at a neighborhood florist. "I was living good, having a good time," Smith told TIME, "giving my wife everything she needed. Tried to make her happy...
...course, you could go the traditional route and get that special someone a bouquet of flowers from the Brattle Street Florist. Ted Gomatos, who was arranging a lovely bouquet of pink tulips earlier this week, says Harvard romantics often venture into the store--and most don't stick to the traditional long stemmed roses (which are $4 apiece). Instead, he says, flowers of all sorts are popular Valentine's Day gifts, notably tulips, irises and some of the shop's tropical varieties...