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Hooray for Pigeons!

Upholstered pigeon seats from designer Lorna B. Hughes, via Apartment Therapy. (Love the photo too.) And a pigeon pillow by Salvor Fauna. The pigeon pillow is part of a larger collection of pillows with animal prints on them, including cats, bears, porcupines, and owls. They are pricey though. Some of the...
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Who Should Pay for Healthcare?

Tuesday's Brian Lehrer Show will be a discussion of who pays for healthcare in the United States. Visit this Web site to download a copy of the Wal-Mart memo leaked last month. The memo includes possible strategies for reducing the company's healthcare costs. Filed in: Politics ...
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Strike at New York University

Some of you might have heard about the graduate assistant strike at New York University. It's been going on for three weeks now, longer than I think most people expected. It's been an inconvenience: my one class has bounced from location to location, meeting at a coffee shop one week,...
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Extreme Makeover: Christmas Tree Edition

Hardrock, Coco and Joe, only slightly less pitiful than the Charlie Brown tree. If you think you've got those magic hands, and all you have to do is wave them around a few times to make a Christmas tree look special, you might want to enter the Chicago Tribune's tree-decorating contest....
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A Suitcase that Really Goes

A friend and I recently walked into a Sanrio store, where I noticed a suitcase with not two but four wheels on its base. Of course an empty suitcase will roll easily across a tiled floor, but I could tell that the suitcase also met with less resistance because the...
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