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...girls are crying.” For some students, the shuttle bus is a place to vent their pent-up frustration. Flood recalls, “One time there was some girl who just missed the shuttle, and the driver shut the doors on her. She was so mad that she literally ran after the shuttle the whole way in, screaming and banging on the windows and doors every time it stopped.” While most shuttle drivers have positive relationships with their frequent passengers, they are often the unintentional sources of terror and/or nausea...
...squares per roll, which translates to about 30 bathroom visits. So one Costco-size pack of toilet paper overarms the eager customer with enough toilet paper to absorb more than 1000 bathroom visits. That, says Steven Stoll, is just plain excessive. In “The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth,” Stoll beseeches his readers to be more economical with their toilet paper use—or something to that effect. Costco, he tells us in the book’s introduction, is a Grand Canyon...
...great to share it with someone like him.”Holland also pinpointed Butt’s thorough knowledge of the mechanics and science of rowing as a key to his success with boats.“We used to refer to him as ‘the mad scientist,’” he said. “He was always looking for a new way to be a better coach, new metaphors, new drills, new techniques, new ways of getting people to row.”It is an art Butt will exercise once more...
Frederick needed release. Without release he would go mad...
...critics, the plan smacks of oil-fueled excess, an attempt to one-up rivals on the mad dash across the Arabian Peninsula to build the tallest, biggest, glitziest structures. Their coffers bulging with surpluses, many Persian Gulf states are turning their desert into one giant construction site. There's the City of Silk project in Kuwait, Dubailand in Dubai and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes abuilding in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman who asked...