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Except for the island, all these have been sold--but money from these and other donations doesn't just pile up together under Harvard's mattress...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hidden Under Harvard's Mattress: The Idiosyncrasies of the Endowment | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

SAGITTARIUS: Look under your mattress. There may be hidden treasures there...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Guest Horoscope | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...performances and bizarre, gasoline-powered contraptions. When we pulled up to Burning Man for the first time several years ago, we were greeted by a fat guy riding a large, furry rabbit motor scooter. He sat behind the ears. Across the desert we could see a truck hauling a mattress behind it, stirring up a huge, blinding vortex of dust. Three passengers in gas masks were reclining on the mattress, waving insanely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONFIRE OF THE TECHIES | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...other hand, Denver Broncos starting safety Steve Atwater swears by his magnetic mattress pad. "I don't know if it's a placebo effect," says Atwater, who has tried taking shark cartilage to little effect, "but it's working for me." Jim Colbert, a top winner on the Senior P.G.A. Tour, attributes his success to the dollar bill-size magnets taped to his ailing back. And Washington Redskins wide receiver Henry Ellard has been using magnets on his legs for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT'S THE ATTRACTION? | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...abuse, the vendors claimed, they were forced to sell trinkets up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, for roughly 74[cents] an hour. Of the $400 each worker was paid monthly, $200 was siphoned off for rent. In a locked room off the areas scattered with mattresses, sleeping bags and bunk beds, police found evidence of their hard labor: $35,000 in cash, $10,000 of it in $1 bills. Within hours, five Paoletti clansmen and two others were arrested, but U.S. and Mexican authorities were still hunting for clan patriarch Jose Paoletti Moreda, 59, who allegedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUFFERING IN SILENCE | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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