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...even worse, they'll lose all sensation in their tastebuds from years of sucking on acidic balls and searing pellets. The seasoning industry will go broke. Condiments will be useless. Food will lose all flavor whatsoever, and no one will care...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers is provide you with "poster gum," Which is basically useless. Fine other ways to hang pictures, or get used to the minimalism of blank walls...
...microwave education for the perpetually preoccupied. Last week former nurse Linda Dunlap ran into both praise and scorn for a video she produced to teach homeless men and women how to scavenge the trash for contaminant-free food. Staged in a talk-show format, the tape is five parts useless banter and one part helpful instruction. Warnings include avoiding discarded dairy products and punctured fruits. Dunlap has had well in excess of 100 requests for the video from shelters and aid groups worldwide...
...Chamlong Srimuang, the ascetic former governor of Bangkok and leader of the move to depose Suchinda, to work out some compromise. Said the monarch: "I would like both of you to talk face-to- face, not to confront each other, because this is our country . . . It's useless to live on burned ruins...
...size of soup cans. Then consider performing this feat swaddled in a 255-lb. rubber suit, suspended in midair, with no net. It , was a comparable challenge that confronted the Endeavour astronauts last week when they rescued Intelsat, a 4.5-ton 17-ft.-long telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled the satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay and attached a rocket booster that would enable...