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...filing fee and postage to return unsolicited donations. Yet, Proxmire won by hefty margins, because Wisconsin voters saw him as a true independent, willing to tirelessly practice retail politics. He'd return to the state from Washington every weekend to shake hands, keeping a mechanical clicker in his pocket to count the number he pumped-usually calling it a day when the total reached about 2,000. Wisconsin voters used to chuckle that they couldn't attend a Green Bay Packers game without being greeted by Prox...
...Annie, put out that clove. Now,” said Fee. He slipped a compact disc from his warm-up suit pocket, inserting it into the nearest computer console...
Skoll isn't just any filmmaker. He's a cofounder of eBay, who retired at 35 with a reported $2 billion in his pocket. Like most other entrepreneurs who have made their first billion before 35, the boyish-looking Skoll is an intensely driven man. Exhausted employees say he is rarely out of touch and never without his Sidekick, Treo and cell phone. These days Skoll's primary objective is not to make money but rather to spend what he has pursuing such lofty ideals as government accountability and social and economic justice...
...magazine was unveiled in an orgy of conspicuous consumption, the editors-in-chief having secured several thousand dollars in pocket money from their fathers so that they might rent out Umbria, a nightclub in downtown Boston...
...infestations have nothing to do with cleanliness. The bugs are great "hitchhikers," says Fred Rozo, an associate certified entomologist at Western Exterminator Pest Control in Southern California. A bug can crawl into your suitcase or your jacket pocket, and once you bring it to your house, you can have an infestation. "You can pick up bed bugs at the best or worst hotels," Rozo says...