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...Glassley pulls into the lab and drives the car to a natural-gas pump. Drivers are responsible for filling the tank up, even though they may not drive the same car their next time out. There's a lost-and-found for stuff left in the cars: sunglasses, cell phones, coffee mugs. (One guy forgot his baby's car seat.) A website allows sharers at the lab to reserve cars for errand running (at 10[cents] a mile) and to arrange car pools back to the BART station...
...understand her rage. I was born two months prematurely and was placed in an incubator. The practice at the time was to pump a large amount of oxygen into the incubator, something doctors have since learned to be extremely cautious about. But as a result, I lost my sight. I was sent to a state school for the blind, but I flunked first grade because Braille just didn't make any sense to me. Words were a weird concept. I remember being hit and slapped. And you act all that in. All rage is anger that is acted in, bottled...
...about planting the seed, priming the pump, getting in on the ground floor. Harvard's Senior Gift is small compared to the University's $2.1 billion Capital Campaign in the amount of donors and money it brings...
...thus in the shadows of the senior gift this program creates an impression that the College is embarrassed of one of its most potentially productive pump-priming methods...
...began randomly firing into the school's indoor commons. "He wasn't aiming," says junior Ryan Rosa, one of his victims. "He was holding it down low... He was not chasing people." In other words, Solomon went about his work almost reluctantly, shooting literally from the hip with a pump-action sport...