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...garbage in his or her wake. Last year, the Border Patrol apprehended half a million illegal immigrants in Arizona; that means that, even if you only count the illegals who were apprehended and use a conservative estimate of five pounds of garbage for each, 2.5 million pounds of trash were left behind...
...drawback is finding a convenient, theft-proof parking spot. "When you can find a safe parking spot on the street, it's often 100 feet or more from your destination; and if there is secure bike parking, it's usually behind the building near the weeds next to a trash dumpster," says Russ Roca, a local photographer who doesn't own a car and hauls up to 200 pounds of equipment on his bike's trailer attachment. "Bike riders are treated like social pariahs and second-class citizens...
...plague of modernity has brought to our backbiting a new crudeness. We have eschewed toady gentility in favor of self-serving strife. And now the scoundrels bring us Risk, to rearrange that nasty competitive instinct along arbitrary House lines. The opening bell had hardly sounded before the color-coded trash-talk began. Those same horrid specimens who might otherwise have greedily withheld a study guide or sabotaged a classmate’s project instead spend their hours hijacking his account and sending his beloved soldiers to their doom. The effect is less severe, but the motive just as inglorious...
...situation. “What’s disgusting? Union busting!” they cried (the guards actually have a union and Harvard has done nothing to bust it), and “Hey, Harvard, you’ve got cash! Why do you pay your workers trash?” (Harvard doesn’t pay these guards—AlliedBarton does). Meanwhile, other students banged giant water jugs like drums, adding to the fever. The protestors, who seem to delight in making mountains out of molehills, have one thing right: It sure feels good to have...
...circle in the Yard before marching to Mass. Hall to speak with administrators, chanting, “What’s outrageous? Harvard’s wages!” and “Hey Harvard, you’ve got cash! Why do you pay your workers trash...