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...friends who met in the first grade—he probably stuck gum in her hair and they were hooked—and for whom extreme sexual tension causes many an awkward moment. They live together in a dingy apartment, where the only source of heat is an ignited trashcan that constantly crackles in the background. Zack works in the local coffee shop, a warmly lit hub run by an old Indian man who speaks as eloquently as his colleagues, telling Rogan and his associate Delaney (Craig Robinson), “I hate both of you ebony and ivory fuckers...
...Obama's local headquarters was bustling. A team of about 15 staffers, paid and volunteer, hunched over laptops and cradled cell phones in a bare space provisioned with bags of Lays potato chips and Dum Dums. A pair of disposable chopsticks and a Chinese takeout container peeked from a trashcan, testament to someone's late night. A steady stream of supporters trooped through the door, eager for yard signs...
...easy to mock Chameides's earnest habits, but his quest does highlight an environmental threat that rarely gets attention. Most Americans have now come to believe that littering on the street is wrong, but as Chameides says, just because you throw something out in a proper trashcan doesn't mean it simply disappears. Though America's landfills are in no danger of filling up any time soon, taking out the trash is increasingly costly, with major cities like New York now having to truck their garbage hundreds of miles to reach an open dumping space. That means energy and carbon...
...Jersey, poultry company Ise America has used such exemptions to defend disposing of unwanted live chicks in a trashcan. In a court case in the fall of 2000, the company’s lawyer opined, “how chickens are discarded, falls into agricultural management practices of my client. And we’ve had—we’ve litigated this issue before in this county with respect to my client and how it handles its manure.” When the trial judge questioned whether there is a difference between manure and live animals, the company?...
...HUPD officers were dispatched to assist the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) in putting out a smoking trashcan. Upon arriving at the scene, they extinguished the smoke...