Word: littered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unkempt, minimum-wage janitor at Bethany College in Bethany, W. Va., for 30 years, Larry Hummel spent his days picking up litter and his nights alone in a small apartment over a garage. His habit of reading the Wall Street Journal and asking economics professors about the stock market seemed a minor eccentricity. But since his death last month at age 82, Hummel has become a major hero. In his will, he left Bethany (enrollment: 800) a bequest that may eventually be worth as much as $1 million...
...plastic | leaves on the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park, he and his eldest son Breck stooped to pick up the rare piece of litter that the cleanup crew had somehow missed...
Believe it. No need to change the kitty litter or take Woofer for a walk. For about $20, Creative Programming Inc. of New York City is offering brief videotapes that provide the "full rich experience of owning your own pet without the mess and inconvenience of the real thing...
...this point the eager ice appreciator must withdraw slightly from the artistic symbosis he doubtless has acheived. The purpose of the instailation, after all, is to challenge the perceptions, not to litter the Quad with frozen corpses. That would be neither artistic nor santitary. It is time for the seeker after art and truth to return to the academic paradise that is Harvard, to a warmer and less esoteric world...
...Angelo Eraklis, of the Harvard-affiliated Boston hospital, are planning to build a facility to treat international patients who cannot afford medical prices in this country. But the site they have chosen for the venture in Clydebank, Scotland is an old shipyard whose remains, which include asbestos pipes, litter the land...