Word: knapsack
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...almost tiny by U.S. standards, and there are fewer than 50 vehicles in the parking lot outside - mostly passenger cars, with a handful of small commercial vehicles, SUVs and some motorbikes. A blue-turbaned, elderly Sikh with a flowing white beard kick-starts his scooter while balancing a small knapsack of shopping on the seat behind him. (Read about Walmart's big plans for getting even bigger...
...left Harvard on the day of the Harvard-Yale game and I could hear the cheers in the crowd—I felt like Charlie Chaplin with my knapsack on my back,” he said of the day he left to study for a year at the University of Utah. After writing for the daily newspaper at Utah, Nelson returned to triumphantly attain a spot on the Editorial Board. Two years later, he was elected president...
Eventually a guy walks into the bar who looks about right. "Glasses - that's a plus," Rudd says. "And some sort of a knapsack." But suddenly Rudd's training from the film deserts him. "What do we do?" he asks. "Make eyes at the guy? Hold a gaze a little long? How do we initiate it?" After a while, Rudd gets up and asks the bookish guy if he wants to sit with us. Two minutes later, Sammy Politziner, 31, an investment banker, and Rudd are talking about the University of Michigan football team, quoting Steve Martin movies and comparing...
BACKPACK BULWARK A knapsack lined with a lightweight, bulletproof plate that students can use as a shield to protect against gunfire or knife blades...
SAFETY FIRST Two Boston fathers were motivated by the shootings at Columbine High School to create the $175 knapsack, called My Child's Pack, which went on sale Aug. 8 online and at a local store...