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...parking-garage tycoon Joe Diamond, you might still be looking for a spot. In the 1940s, faced with a postwar shortage of parking-lot attendants, he set up self-pay boxes to collect fees. His tactics, like attaching 50-gal. drums to the tires of unpaid vehicles, irked customers, but his idea caught on, helping make self-pay systems standard in lots across the country...
...just a guy-gal thing, though that's part of the equation. It's more about the satisfactions you seek in entertainment. A belly laugh? A virtual blast? A story whose noble sentiment makes you feel all warm inside but makes your friend's eyes roll? I call this kind of movie the liberal weepie...
Richard Hebron, 41, was driving along an anonymous stretch of highway near Ann Arbor, Mich., last October when state cops pulled him over, ordered him to put his hands on the hood of his mud-splattered truck and seized its contents: 453 gal. of milk...
...circumvent state restrictions is a so-called herd-sharing program, like Hebron's, which requires members to, in effect, lease a portion of a cow - for $20 a year, in his case - and sign an agreement opposing "all governmental standards for food, preparation, storage and safety." The $6.25-per-gal. charge is technically not a sale but compensation to cover board and transport costs...
...stop “piggybacking,” and let someone follow us into our house without swiping his or her own ID card. And even doors with locks permit entry when they are propped open by a coat hanger, shoe, or toaster oven. Yes, asking that guy or gal outside the entryway for ID is awkward. He or she may, in all likelihood, look offended and snap, “I live in your hall!” But consider: Is a little social discomfort worth $10,000 of personal belongings? (This much was stolen from Lowell...