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Gonen, whose company is being flooded with offers from venture capitalists, wants to grow RecycleBank gradually. But earlier this year he went after a new target: college campuses. Starting with a pilot program at New York City's Columbia University, RecycleBank is putting special kiosks in cafeterias and dorms. Each student gets a RecycleBank card and takes their recycling to the closest kiosk, where they swipe their card, weigh their recycling and claim their points. The campus model required a little tweaking on Gonen's part - the dorm kiosks, he notes, are prank-proof (you can douse them in beer...
...also think that if I was a young person today, I would probably agree with what I hear over and over that you are likely to grow up not enjoying the same standards of living your parents enjoyed. It’s easy to get idealistic about things—and as a college student I certainly was—but we need to be able to translate that idealism into policies that give you back the dream. We are the most optimistic people in the world. And I really hate that I see in this generation the possibility that...
...ritual of afternoon tea.They only wanted for something—someone, perhaps—to tip the balance.“What will there be to see on the north side?” Frederick replied. “Just a square of tilled soil in which nothing can grow, in which those shoots that do break through to the open air will soon find that the warmth will never touch them? They will give up, and wither, and die. Such a garden would soon be only of use or interest to ourselves, because therein we should recognize and acknowledge...
...other side of the warehouse door, at the bar, the breweries were all different. Some served barbecue, others Mexican food. Many had fried things; some offered just beer. Some were filled with regulars downing pints; others were primarily for tourists coming to taste. And just as American wineries now grow grapes from nearly every European region, I was able to sample all the world's beer styles, from the weird red Lambics of Belgium, which taste like Sour Patch Kids candy, to chocolaty Irish porters...
...number of identical articles drawn from the Associated Press filling the pages of papers across the nation. When budget constraints necessitate that something gets cut, investigative reporting is often the first thing to go. If CBS does indeed outsource its investigative reporting to CNN, this trend will only grow more prevalent...