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...Warsaw, dogs leave an estimated 2,000 tons of waste on city streets annually, or 5.5 tons each day. Last month, officials began handing out free scoops and plastic bags to dog owners, but they are being little used. In Prague, where dogs leave behind at least 3,000 tons annually, similar efforts have also been unsuccessful...
...what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green...
...given out after every game or every two games—a hard-hat, a duck, and a boa. While these awards might not come in the form of a shiny Oscar, they are just as prestigious to these Crimson skaters. Take the hard-hat award, for instance. This plastic, yellow head-bubble is what really sets the Crimson apart from the rest of the competition and what junior defenseman Caitlin Cahow deems the most coveted of the three awards.Cycling has le maillot jaune and apparently Harvard women’s hockey has an equivalent—le chapeau jaune...
Last month TIME wrote about soldiers and Marines in Iraq requesting an unusual life-saving item in their care packages sent from home: Silly String. It seems that the neon plastic party streamers sprayed into an open doorway before a building search or across a darkened room can help detect nearly invisible trip wires attached to bombs and boobytraps. The old methods to detect trip wires - sweeping the space with a metal grappling hook or getting close enough for a visual inspection - just aren't as safe, Marines discovered...
...have covered topics like withdrawal from Iraq and global famine relief. Heavy stuff for a Friday night. Tonight’s topic: “If you were in charge of the war on terror, what would you do?” Sipping cheap Merlot from a clear plastic cup, McMillian awaits the arrival of his guests. Barely audible ’60s rock music pumps out of a pair of speakers on the mantelpiece, under which a few logs of wood sit patiently in the fireplace. But McMillian almost never uses it. “It smells terrible when...