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Wells lived alone in a small rented white A-frame house, where he did little but tend to his cats, watch rented movies and, in the winter, help his neighbors shovel snow. His take-home pay was usually only a few hundred dollars a week, but the week he died, he made his last regular payment on a loan extended by a friend to help him buy the Geo Metro he drove. He played the lottery regularly and once collected a $250 payout, which he talked about for weeks. A co-worker, Robert Slayton, recalls that Wells' only vice seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Of A Pizza Man | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...moves around in a cart; other times he pines for Sparky's company. In one episode he drags Sparky into the backyard and buries him alive without malice or reason. The next day Quimby wakes up and can't figure out what happened to Sparky. Distressed, he discovers the shovel and, suddenly remembering, begins digging for Sparky in a panic. Quimby retrieves the still-alive Sparky to his great relief and goes to bed happy, though Sparky his bitten out a piece of Quimby's foot as revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mouse; A House; A Mystery | 8/22/2003 | See Source »

...heroes, the sons of President Saddam Hussein," says Mahmoud Jemma Hamid, 19, who helped carry Mustafa to his final resting place. "The blood for Mustafa, Uday and Qusay will not go to waste," added Usama Hamid who used to work in the office of the President and helped shovel dirt on stainless-steel box that held Saddam Hussein's grandson. "Saddam loves the blood of all Iraqis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hussein Brothers Are Laid to Rest | 8/2/2003 | See Source »

...Francis seemed to shovel it with his mouth,” said Fowler...

Author: By Hera A. Abbasi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Club Members Honor Pi and Eat It, Too | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...went to the Salient-open list and my roommate, Amy E. Keel ’04, sent a message to the Coalition Against Sexual Violence list. It being nearly 1 a.m., no reinforcements were to be found. On our way back to the Yard, however, we came across a shovel stuck in a snow pile outside Memorial Church—to Amy this was mere coincidence, to me, this was clearly an instance of Divine Providence and confirmation that the lewd sculpture had to go. In considering whether to wait around another hour until the fascination died down, we asked...

Author: By Mary C. Cardinale, | Title: The Other Phallus-Breaker | 2/26/2003 | See Source »

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