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...someone has taken the thermos concept out of the lunch box and into the dining room, with style. Bodum's new double-walled drinking glasses ($12 to $20 a pair at www.bodum.com) feature two layers of heat-resistant glass. Your drink is suspended in the inner layer, with a pocket of air in between to insulate sensitive fingers from hot espresso or, alternatively, prevent warm hands from melting ice cubes in soft drinks. An added benefit: condensation is contained in the inner wall, eliminating the need for coasters...
...years ago, Chen decided to congratulate some of his favorite customers upon their graduation. At $14.99 a bottle, Chen’s gift of choice—Bouvet Signature Brut—wasn’t cheap. But although the money came directly from Chen’s own pocket, he let the bubbly flow freely. Four years ago, in fact, he had no qualms about giving away nearly 100 bottles...
...demanding transparency from the super-secret and dictatorial Harvard Corporation, we have Senior Gift Plus, which politely asked Harvard to stop funding rape and mass murder in Darfur. And even that noble and successful movement had its detractors: a group of largely wealthy undergrads who had pledged their own pocket money (raised no doubt, from their after-school jobs, right?) to Fair Harvard, and couldn’t absorb the idea that there was a legitimate objection to their peers duly shelling out cash...
Although there was no airborne wood during the FM interview, Stanul did show off his (literally) chiseled body. After removing two carrots from his pocket (“I try to eat healthy,” he says), Stanul proceeded to chisel the hair off part of his forearm. Now that’s skill...
...pocket costs for cars and computers are understated. Last year the average suggested sticker price for a passenger car rose $467, reports the Department of Labor. But because of improved brake, air-bag and theft-protection technology, which made cars more valuable, an increase of only $386 was built into the CPI in an effort to measure "constant quality," says Patrick Jackman, senior economist at Labor...