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They watched sculls slip by seemingly without effort in the sport that has demanded so much time through the decades from Harvard men and, lately, from Harvard women. As befits a traditional race, the spectators basked in the sun and munched on fried dough, hot dogs and junk food of unknown origin...
...Dollar-a-Pound is mostly junk," she admits. "But upstairs is awesome. I've found a lot of my clothes there...
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...that you've bought a zippy new computer, what happens to the old one? Junk machines are becoming a big garbage problem that can't be solved by emptying the Trash icon on your desktop...
...brings me to another batch of three: The Crash of the Millennium by Ravi Batra, who, as they say, has called five out of the past two recessions; Beat the Millennium Crash by Jake Bernstein; and Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Dutch tulip bulbs to junk bonds) by Edward Chancellor. The bubble theories in these books at the very least provide some counterweight to the sky's-the-limit authors...