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...workers played hard, all in a fuchsia-colored office turned Disneyland with all the caramel lattes you could swallow. There was oodles of money to be earned, even if the company didn't make a dime, and the best part was that you could have fun--real adolescent, prankster, thumb-your-nose-at-the-principal kind of junior high school fun. "Hey, we're working, and it's a party!" is how an employee, laid off when his video-services group was axed, remembers the dominant workplace ethos...
Recently inspecting a map of Harvard Square and its surrounds, Dartboard decided to empirically investigate a matter that had been gnawing at his mind for some time. Measuring the distance from the Leverett towers to the Science Center with Dartboard’s thumbs, Dartboard was surprised to learn that while that distance was spanned by the width of seven thumbs, not even a single thumb separated Leverett’s towers from Mather’s ugly slab...
...reluctantly do just that. Last Wednesday officials launched homicide inquiries after Marie Humbert injected barbiturates into the IV drip of her severely handicapped son, Vincent; he died Friday. Left blind, paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident, the mentally sound Vincent used movement in his thumb to communicate his physical and emotional agony over his "locked-in" condition. In a November letter to President Jacques Chirac, he asked that his mother be allowed to help him end his torment without risking prosecution under French laws prohibiting assisted suicide. He repeated that plea in a book...
...have to use some characterization of serving size that people recognize,” he says, pinching the base of his thumb...
...serving of cheese is the size of your thumb. The pyramid is not helping people understand,” he says. “They are eating too many servings that...