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...spectral magnificence, the tail of a comet is about as close as you can get to nothing at all, a banner of dust so tenuous that a cubic mile's worth wouldn't fill a shoebox. Yet that near nothingness holds many secrets. Comets are leftovers from the creation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago; they also delivered organic chemicals and water--the crucial building blocks of life--to the young Earth. Scientists would love, therefore, to get a bit of comet into the lab for analysis...
...cookies travel pretty darn well, even third class. Wrapped in wax paper and fresh from the freezer to the mail counter, quality morsels can travel sea to shining sea without too much damage to their taste. (There can be a pulverizing effect, however, so I recommend a sturdy shoebox.) Only your smile might give away the nature of the treasured contents when you go to claim them. And so the remedy to college food ho-hums may be closer then the next family holiday meal: prepare to enjoy the taste of home on your very own futon...
...mention this? Jaded as we are, we still believe that there are some holidays that defy shoehorning into the Shoebox Greeting Card ethos. Much as we would like to see the paunchy padrones of the North End roll up the sleeves of their Kappa windsuits and go toe to toe with the yuppies of Tremont Street, we'll settle for any sort of remembrance of dear...
Alexandria V. Long, known among Tasty regulars as "Cricket," has been ordering hot dogs and french fries at the shoebox corner eatery for six years, and she's only a sophomore at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...
...start planning early. I came back from Thanksgiving break well-armed. I bought boxes of cards, planning carefully ahead for the right variety of humorous and serious, religious and secular messages, in sharp contrast to my typical last minute trip to the Coop for the leftover box of Shoebox Greetings with clever jokes about killing reindeer...