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Souter is the son of an assistant bank manager and a mother who worked in a giftshop. He attended public elementary schools and Concord High School, where he managed to be well liked despite being something of a grind -- voraciously studious, fastidiously neat, with no time for organized sports...
...Brick designer Tom Spalding, 41, says the machine comes in "boring beige" and in a postmodern granite finish, which he likes a lot better. "We're not a traditional vendor," says Spalding, who previously made millions in hot-tub and stereo- equipment ventures. "It's much more fun doing neat, clever designs...
...think the skatepunks hanging around in the T Pit are neat, head over to Newbury Comics, in the Garage. Newbury sells some wicked cool music, concert tickets, t-shirts, posters and--oh yeah--comic books...
...Karens may be the most civilized guerrillas on earth. At army headquarters in Manerplaw, deep in the jungle of Burma, enlisted men maintain neat parade grounds, teak officers' quarters, even the occasional flower bed of marigolds and roses. Bugles sound morning reveille, and new recruits march to target practice under a gatepost that carries a black-lettered sign, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. Even in Komura, a muddy labyrinth of trenches and bunkers 100 miles south, where some 500 Karen soldiers have been trapped in battle for months with the Burmese army, the men are high-minded...
...Minneapolis 3M encourages employees to devote about 15% of their work schedule to non-job related tasks, or doing "skunkworks" duty, as it's known around the office. One skunkworking engineer came up with the idea for those neat adhesive Post-it notes while letting his imagination roam. This and other employee-generated brainstorms, from three-dimensional magnetic recording tape to disposable masks, have encouraged 3M to set a goal of 25% in total revenues from new products developed in the past five years. Currently those revenues are running closer to 30%, and 3M figures that nearly...