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...when to return for his waffle. Come on, man, we all know that those things are on a 2:50 timer! Thus the rest of the people in the dining hall are forced to stand around and deal with the moral conundrum of removing the waffle from the iron or standing there and waiting for the delinquent Waffler to return from his other affairs (probably blocking the drink machine). We should invest in waffle irons that cause the waffle inside to explode if it isn’t picked up within ten seconds of finishing, but until that happens...
...audaciously established a settlement on Greenland's comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...
Under tight pressure, Giovacchini forced up an off-balance jumper from the right elbow, the shot hitting the iron...
...clothing - and both those industries are in decline. The sums migrant workers send home have surged by 28% in two years, to $179 million, Waqa says. Half of that total now comes from Iraq - "and it's growing." The effects can be seen all over Fiji, as corrugated-iron huts give way to concrete houses, often with new cars outside. Cinavilakeba and his wife Ceriana put a deposit on a house before their wedding. "His job will help us pay for it," she says. Fijian soldiers have been taking risks to get bigger paychecks for decades. Almost 2,000 serve...
...today there is a new, intermediate phase along the way. The years from 18 until 25 and even beyond have become a distinct and separate life stage, a strange, transitional never-never land between adolescence and adulthood in which people stall for a few extra years, putting off the iron cage of adult responsibility that constantly threatens to crash down on them. They're betwixt and between. You could call them twixters...