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...Note to Census Bureau: I hope this helps. As for your numerous questions about my finances, I'm attaching a shoebox of pay stubs, canceled checks and credit-card receipts. Please notify me when you've determined my income. There's a Form 1040 on my desk, but with all the Census questions I've been working on, I doubt I'll be able to get to it this year. I know you'll understand...
...have--the invincible confidence of youth. That is what makes them such good skateboarders and roller-coaster riders. So after you've made all your best arguments, show your kid that you know a thing or two about the impermanence of fashion. Somewhere in your attic there's a shoebox full of faded Polaroids of you flaunting your teenage geekiness. Good-naturedly display some specially selected photos of you and your friends dressed like Tony Orlando and Dawn. When the laughter dies down, explain to your kid that in 1977, you looked fabulous. Fortunately for everyone, your fashion statement wasn...
...lobbying for the preservation of green spaces as feeding grounds and nailing nesting boxes high on the outside walls of homes. He chose older houses that had been refurbished, so that the birds could return to familiar haunts. The birdhouses are plain pinewood, about the size of a shoebox, with an entry hole in front. So far, Alon and his colleagues in Operation Kestrel have put up 40 boxes in Jerusalem and 50 in Haifa. "The kestrels are dependent on people," says Alon, who started bird watching as a 13-year-old growing up on a kibbutz near Nazareth...
...Sketchy sketches in that black shoebox they call the Loeb Experimental Theatre? We're all about that. Overdirected, psychological manipulation? Spun wheels and poked emotional buttons? Spontaneous activation of our arid tear ducts? Precisely our kettle of tea! Not to mention the kicklines of beautiful storm troopers. We're so there. Already...
Much has been written about love. Famous authors like Shakespeare and Shelley, Hallmark's Shoebox have dedicated volumes on the subject...