Word: plainly
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...clothing by size and type, the donations could be more efficiently distributed and provide high-quality merchandise for the agency's two thrift shops. Since the summer of 1998, some 50 people have completed a six-month training program at Pine Street's sprawling warehouse in Boston's Jamaica Plain, handling about 5,000 lbs. of clothing a day. For the first time, the operation is becoming self-sustaining, and, says Schorr, "we are now funding a training program that we might otherwise have had to close." It's a better way of doing good, and for social entrepreneurs, that...
Other attractions are just plain distracting. Taking a cue from Cirque du Soleil's O and Mystere (still the most flabbergasting spectacles on the planet), the Paris has put on its own French-accented musical. Notre Dame de Paris gives Victor Hugo's Quasimodo tale a pop-rock attitude, as the performers growl Richard Cocciante's ho-hummable score into their Madonna mikes. A few fine singers (Janien Masse as Esmeralda, Francis Ruivivar as Frollo) can't save the old tragedy from becoming a new disaster. The show's big, all right: a big mess...
...kitchen on the other side of the huge dining room. At 6:30, however, the mellow atmosphere vanished as students appeared from out of nowhere, forming a line that circled around the 8-foot, dark wood table laden with bowls of food. The white china dishes and plain glasses so familiar to the Harvard student are a rare occurrences here, otherwise replaced by piles of mismatched bowls, plates, empty yogurt cups and a flatware stand of forks and chopsticks...
...says all the wrong things--then he says all the right things. In some eyes he is merely a brash, Porsche-driving, bungee-jumping populist politician. In others he is a racist and an apologist for Nazism. He is unfairly vilified and misunderstood--or he is just plain bad. What is certain about the zig-zag course of Jorg Haider's right-wing ideology is that last week it brought him and his Freedom Party into a coalition government in Austria--and left the 14 other member countries of the European Union in a state of indignation. As Haider...
...number of satellites in orbit has increased sixfold, to more than 600. They are essential for everything from telephone service and air-traffic control to you-name-it.com connections, pay-at-the-pump credit-card service and hundreds of other information-age conveniences. Yet for reasons of economy, or just plain indifference, few of these spacecraft are properly shielded...