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Ever since a pipe burst in May in the basement of Let’s Go headquarters, the travel guide’s editors and writers have learned about a different kind of tourism—instead of Fiji or the Mediterranean, they have been forced to relocate a few floors upstairs to the company’s already-crowded cubicles, and will have to foot a very expensive bill for repairs...
...also had to foot the bill for replacing the broken pipe underneath the street outside—a cost which insurers refused to cover, said Rombauer, on the grounds that they cannot reach the underground plumbing to adequately evaluate and insure it. The price tag for repairing the damaged pipe was estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000—bringing the total costs up to almost two percent of HSA’s $5.3 million budget...
...reputation as the smartest channel on cable, I got Andrew Cohen, vice president of Original Programming, to green-light Good Clean Porn, a series where I would show adult films without the sex scenes and introduce them, Alistair Cooke style, sitting in a leather chair and smoking a pipe...
...enemy. As a young scholar with an idealistic desire to see the Korean peninsula united, Kim traveled to the communist North as a self-styled peace broker. In South Korea 40 years ago, that made him a North Korean spy. The agency's interrogators beat him with a metal pipe, screaming at him to confess that he'd been sent by Pyongyang to foment revolution. "When I passed out, they'd throw ice water on me," recalls Kim, now a frail grandfather. "Or they'd put a wet towel over my face and pour water on it so I couldn...
Since his retirement, Knuth has continued to write and to update his software. He gives occasional lectures and performances on the pipe organ...