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From the viewpoint of a Harvard Square merchant, Commencement week means extra personnel, shelves of sweatshirts and hordes of people, all of which combine to make this weeklong bonanza one of the year's most lucrative seasons...
Prime contributors to the growing tide of plastic pollution are the world's merchant ships, which, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, dump at least 6.6 million tons of trash overboard every year. Some 639,000 plastic containers and bags are tossed into the oceans every day. Commercial fishermen are also major offenders. Estimates of the plastic fishing gear lost or discarded at sea every year range as high as 150,000 tons. Boaters and beachgoers add to the marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging...
...secure upper-middle-class family that was shaken by trauma. Sheedy's parents separated when she was nine, and she spent the rest of her childhood shuttling between two households nine blocks apart in Manhattan, never knowing where she had left her sneakers. Bonham Carter's father, a merchant banker, suffered a brain tumor when she was 13, and was paralyzed when an operation to remove it went wrong. Her family rallied, and both her father and her mother, a psychotherapist, now take an amused pleasure in her success. But it was her own reaction at the time that...
...BRITISH merchant-ship bound for the New World foundered in a storm off the coast of the Bermudas, but the crew and bounty were magically spared. Taking the famous wreck of the Sea-Adventure and its miraculous outcome as his departure, Shakespeare wove his most topical, yet least earthbound drama, The Tempest...
...WASN'T UNTIL the Cambridge Crater had been refilled, and the real population of Cambridge returned that I began to realize why every merchant in Harvard Square detests his fellow man. Look at what he's got to deal with...