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...11” one-gallon Ziploc bag. Where else could you find not only a dirty plate, but also Pez dispensers, lychee candy wrappers, an old sandwich, Radiohead’s “OK Computer,“ fortune cookies and bank receipts in re-sealable plastic bags, arranged artistically in a room...
...dangerous can an Afro comb and a plastic bottle of hot sauce be? When Officer Louis Pepe came by cell No. 6 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 1, 2000, he was distracted by a squirt in the face from the bottle before the sharpened comb was plunged like a bayonet through his eye and 2 1/2 in. into his brain. The man in the cell, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, then allegedly took the keys from the paralyzed Pepe and began to wander down the hall. Guards stopped Salim, and he didn't get away...
...wand's not magic. It's just a plastic doodad smaller than a lipstick, embedded with a tiny electronic chip that is scanned by a reader in the vending machine. The reader taps Mason's credit account over the Internet and works much like a credit card--something most vending machines won't accept, along with crumpled dollar bills. Mason's wand from FreedomPay, based in Wayne, Pa., lets him eat not just from the machines at work but also at any of Boise's 31 McDonald's restaurants. Says Mason: "Now I don't starve...
...With luck, the deaths and suffering of so many will push governments to plug some of the holes that allow refugees to set out from Indonesia packed into rickety fishing boats. No one should have to suffer like Rokaya, sitting off to one side by herself in a white plastic chair, looking down at the dirty floor tiles, seeing nothing but the faces of her lost children...
Hard-core Quincy folk eschewed the provided plastic in favor of more spirited House steins, while students, tutors and recently appointed House Master Robert R. Kirshner mingled and made merry with cups of Bass...