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...Jake B. Gonzalez ’06 has so far failed in his plan to pick up girls while working Dorm Crew. “I just tell them I’ve come to swab their decks and scrub their bowls,” he recounts. “And then they slap me?...
...Indian specialty item?foods cooked in a tandoor oven?and transform it into gourmet cuisine. The restaurant's look is pure Flintstones: walls of boulders, solid-wood tables and menus printed on laminated sections of tree. There's no cutlery either: you rip at great hunks of meat and swab it up with nan the size of a trash can lid. But don't let this modish coarseness fool you: there's nothing back-to-basics about the cooking. The tandoori jhinga?four colossal marinated prawns flavored with yogurt, red chilies, turmeric and garam masala?is sensational. And the sikandari...
...kind of fealty, especially when facing a vast propaganda campaign. Every night for months the top story on the evening news has shown peasants digging ditches for the greater glory of China. In Beijing, the government claims that 2.5 million people have "volunteered" to sweep streets and swab bicycle racks before the congress. Thousands of red flags line boulevards in the capital, and billboards in Tiananmen Square celebrate the "victorious opening" of the congress. By quietly putting up with the inanity of it all, Chinese affirm their acquiescence. Li Shuzhen is one such person. She lives in a stone house...
...Swiffer uses disposable cleaning pads (they pick up more grime and don't need wringing) instead of conventional mop locks and has a container of cleaning fluid built right into the handle. Pull on the mop's trigger, and a motor shoots fluid onto the floor while you swab. Bid farewell to hands-and-knees scrubbing and toting heavy buckets of messy mop water. --By Roy B. White
...most visible messes are the easiest to deal with. A moist paper towel will freshen up your monitor; a cotton swab can scrape the crud off the rollers in your mouse; a good burst from a can of compressed air will get the dust out of your keyboard. If your computer desktop is as messy as your real one, that's easily corrected too. You just have to be merciless. Dump those obsolete documents. Delete old e-mails without looking back. Trash any program you haven't used since the last millennium...