Word: mailboxes
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...great from the moment he popped out. My lady and I were not. She was hospitalized with pregnancy-related heart problems. I was fired by a small alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia. In those days, we lived in a small one-bedroom apartment in Delaware. Paychecks floated into our mailbox randomly. We ate take-out more then we cooked. Our rent was habitually late. We spent many hours home together with a new son, and when we weren't looking, the walls closed...
Large and green, the BigBelly from the outside also resembles a mailbox. "We don't want people putting their tax forms in there," joked Boston official Timothy McCarthy as he introduced Beantown's 50 BigBellys to residents. It's the mechanics inside that makes the trash compactors so distinctive. Each is equipped with a 40-watt solar panel connected to a 12-volt battery, which runs the motor (the battery guarantees that the BigBelly works rain or shine). At 540 lbs., it's not easy to steal. The unit costs about $4,000, about 10 times the price...
...Let’s go to the movies? Hm…I’d rather catch-up on “Dancing with the Stars” than watch an unabashedly bland Keanu Reeves try desperately to communicate with a woman from another time…through a mailbox. It seems that instead of attempting to reinvigorate the age-old pastime of movie-going, the big studios are simply making a slew of mediocre movies to fill the void left by quality films such as “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Sixth...
...your way to show that you are just like everyone else. I know it’s hard to deal with the fact that some of your fellow classmates have memorized the first 100 digits of pi while you still struggle to memorize your three digit mailbox number. It may seem like everyone in your calculus class can divide by zero except for you, but keep things in perspective. Remember that no matter how impressive other Harvard students appear, no one is perfect. Except for me. I never make misteaks...
...started during a Lit and Arts B lecture. She reached into her pocket to get a pen, and out popped a little plastic figurine. “Two days later,” says Romatowski, “one of them showed up in [Riley’s] university mailbox.” Romatowski declined to say if she was the mysterious mailer. When asked how HSA found out about her collection of now dozens of the small mermaids and elephants, Riley pled ignorance. But she hopes that the donations keep coming. “We’re saving...