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Upon entering the exhibit you are immediately drawn to a pile of what appears to be large hunks of turf, haphazardly dumped in the center of the room. As it turns out, these are actually chunks of chocolate, popcorn and caramel, there to be eaten. For some reason it is a disconcerting sight to see tweedy patrons bending down and nibbling at a sculpture...
...Wall Street Journal, anyway) disco-era throwback Shrinky Dinks, which sentimental boomers are apparently trying to pass on to their kids. And there's always this year's batch of "must-own" DVDs of didn't-need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores, and the American urge to lavish gifts upon one's family, friends and of course oneself will do the rest...
Psychically speaking, the holidays are always a tender time. "But this Thanksgiving is the biggie," says Mary Courtney of New York University's Child Study Center. "Having a unifying ritual can be good, but we don't need people sitting around in a pile sobbing or starting to compare their levels of pain. But it can be hard not to. Even I call my own family back in Minnesota, and they talk about how traumatized they all are. I want to say to them, 'I've been working seven days a week on this at the center of the trauma...
...Postal Service finally took some concrete action last week, ordering a lot of gloves and masks and a few irradiation systems for key mail-sorting facilities in Washington, New York and New Jersey. But as anthrax mail continues to pile up, so too do questions about how to protect ourselves against it. Here are some answers...
Following the laughing outburst, Gagnon alerted Myers and Marcel LaFlamme ’04 to the situation. The bat had crawled into the laundry pile of the fourth roommate, Will Holmgren ’04. “I ran down and told the super about the bat. He sent someone up who couldn’t find it and assured us it must have left,” says Gagnon. Professional pest controllers returned a few times, once supplying the room with glue paper with which to trap...