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Jenkins had left her door unlocked, since her roommate, Candice L. Iida '98 was sleeping inside. When she returned, she discovered that Iida had heard the man calling. "Joshua!" in their room and that she had heard the rustle of a plastic...
...long-range weather reports were favorable for the summer, he was too wounded to have faith. His income had been chopped in half by the unceasing rain of the year before; he and his wife Julie got by only because of a nursery operation that she had started in plastic greenhouses. But last week, as his trucks filled with corn and soybeans lumbered off to storage bins, Hurst could pause with Julie and exult, "I love the harvest season...
...companies that send these offers out probably say that they're just trying to help students. They're doing us all a big favor by offering us the opportunity of alternative methods of payment. They're making our lives simpler with magic plastic, right...
Certainly it would be paternalistic to suggest that college students--especially Harvard students--aren't capable of deciding for themselves whether or not they need an instant $10,000 credit line. Most students probably do understand that magic plastic really isn't all that magical...
Ours is a plastic, throw-away culture. In the perpetual quest for instant gratification--fast food, heart-stopping entertainment, efficient government--we tend to endorse and abolish in grand swaths, with a flick of the wrist, a snap of the fingers and little thought. We love McDonald's french fries for their perfectly consistent thickness and temperature, Schwarzenegger because he produces a constant stream of adrenaline, and a congressperson who stays out of trouble and agrees with us on everything...