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...container, concluding that underage undergraduates will find it more difficult to purchase the same amount of beer in cans and bottles from local liquor stores. But many Princeton alumni have opposed the ban, explaining in a letter that bottles and cans were "more likely . . . to cause injury" than a plastic...
...waiting in line in the drugstore last month, I happened to glance at one of the display racks. By the flyswatters and bugsprays was a "Fly Gun." It looked like a little water gun, except it shot out a piece of plastic mesh attached to a rope. The idea, I guess, was to aim and fire at flying insects. At least, that's what the bright, flashy label seemed to suggest...
...crack of whiffle bats against plastic balls could be heard throughout Harvard Yard yesterday, as a number of first-years enjoyed their first official day off from the rigors of Harvard life...
Adam, a Manhattan nine-year-old who greets a reporter with a plastic fly on his outstretched tongue, remembers it differently. The parts he remembers, that is. (He's a little fuzzy on the audition: "That was a year and a half ago," he patiently explains.) Adam thought the work was "all fun," except for one scene where he had to wear leg braces, another where he rides a pony, and a few others where he was supposed to cry. Could Fred be someone Adam might know? "No, he's too smart for me." Could he exist somewhere? "It could...
...Have you ever thought about private practice? You could be sitting in some mahogany-paneled office, Oriental rugs on the floor, a silver tea service instead of warm diet Coke from the vending machine and leftover plastic cups half-filled with day-old Slim-Fast...