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...anything is true about the 50 years of WHRB history, at least its signal has been strong in the Harvard community, Wolk said. So strong that one year the station printed up t-shirts reading "WHRB: Medium Dark on Your Toaster Dial...
...number and wait for the mail. Or for $10 you can get a 24-hour wire transfer. There is no other fee and no penalty if you fail to save what you said you would. O.K., you won't earn great interest, and you won't get a toaster, but you will earn 0.5% more than an average of what 100 other banks around the country are paying on money-market accounts. That average stands at 6.04%, so at the moment you'd be earning...
...lawyer, Mark Olive. "Barbarous," said Thomas Horkan, executive director of the Florida Catholic Conference. Last week prison officials came up with an explanation. An overzealous maintenance man had replaced the natural sponge in the headpiece with a synthetic sponge bought at a local store. When tested in a toaster, the synthetic sponge started to smoke. Tafero, officials insisted, was brain-dead after the first shock of electricity and felt no pain...
...about a year, I did not eat meat or fish. My vegetarianism made eating on the University meal plan difficult, and I rarely ate the entrees offered in the cafeteria. I made my meals at the salad bar or cooked a cheese sandwich in the toaster oven. Meals were almost universally unsatisfying, and I was hungry a good deal of the time...
...Allsburg has a gift for adopting unusual vantage points. After spotting two ants in his kitchen one day, he dreamed up Two Bad Ants (1988), in which the adventures of a pair of the insects -- being buffeted inside a garbage disposal and nearly getting cooked in a toaster -- are seen from the angle of the creatures themselves. "If I were an ant looking out from an electrical socket," Van Allsburg explains, "the long slits in which the light poured in would look like 15-ft. doorways hung in space." And so they...