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Agatha reaches into a plastic Coop bag and fishes out a sheath of photographs. With great care, she lifts each individual picture from the stack and places them, one by one, on top of a heap of clothing...
...place—sharply-dressed, fast-talking New York yuppies abound as well, and even a few 17-year-olds like us. Potter-mania has struck the entire Upper West Side, judging by the size of the crowd. Julia and I leave the store each wearing a pair of plastic-rimmed Potter glasses and clutching our 750-odd page treasures to our chests. Harry (and not the margaritas) has made this night a thrilling...
Students representing all 12 Houses and the three Freshman Yards put on purple gloves and plastic aprons yesterday morning to participate in Harvard’s fifth annual waste audit...
...contrast, trouble awaits those who want to get involved. Beside a railway track in south Beijing, five people have camped out in a plastic tent. Meng Jianxin, the most outspoken of them, traveled to Beijing last week from Fengjie city in Sichuan province, where his family home will be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. He says local officials embezzled much of his compensation money, and he's here to petition the congress for redress. "I want to ask the delegates who they represent, who elected them," he says. At the nearby train station, six uniformed police watch from under...
...large enough to make one wonderfully aware that they were built for enjoyment more than utility. The end tables and lamps are beautifully crafted and of impeccable quality. Such care has been taken with the ambiance of this room that the ornate fake candelabras on the wall have fake plastic wax running down the fake paper candles...