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Last Friday began like every other day this summer. I was woken late (but still at an hour that would give any sane college student cold sweats) by a cacophonous chorus of three different alarms, each placed strategically around my room so as to be out of easy reach. By the time I dragged myself out of bed, I had a pulsating headache that would last until lunchtime thanks to the jarring sound of screeching, badly maintained train brakes out my window. Nevertheless, I managed to get showered and dressed in time to make it to my train (no time...

Author: By Brian J. Rosenberg, ADAM M. GUREN | Title: Subway Lemmings | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

Small enough to fit on a key chain, TV-B-Gone can be used to stealthily turn off blaring TVs in airports and bars from as far away as 50 ft. Since its October debut, more than 50,000 of the tube quellers have been sold, proving that 24-hour news is not for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anarchy in the Airwaves | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...museum has joined forces with the University of Pennsylvania art department in backing a Graffiti Alternative Workshop. After "recruiting" some prolific vandals, who had been caught in the act, the workshop commissioned several at $2 an hour to candy-stripe a dilapidated transit-authority bus. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. hired yet another group to decorate the plywood fence surrounding its new Philadelphia office. One graffitist was even paid to paint a mural on the wall of Art Patron Ben Bernstein's town house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: An Identity Thing | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...here I am, commuting by bus to and from my internship at the Sydney Jewish Museum, and pretty much anywhere else I choose to go. I’ve resigned myself to spending at least an hour each day on a contraption that makes maddeningly frequent stops and drives so fanatically I’m continually convinced we’re about to crash into a eucalyptus...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Inadvertent Bus Tour | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...introduction of the meeting, the Allston Initiative’s Director of Physical Planning Harris Band attempted to forestall community discontent, describing the plans that dominated discussion at the two-hour meeting as “recommendations that are very preliminary still...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neighbors Decry Allston Proposals | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

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