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...just remembered we're out of toilet paper and toothpaste too." The "R" Market offers far more toddler food and snack options than typical supermarkets, and the presentation of the Phillipsburg shop, for one, was neat, tight and bright. "I'll definitely use it," says Jennifer Stroka, a veterinary technician and mother of a 4-year-old girl. "It's like one-stop shopping. It looks great, and will make my life easier." If there are enough moms out there thinking like Stroka, Toys "R" Us may be gift-wrapping itself the perfect present: profits...
Aspiring Qs would do well to think outside the box. Played most famously by Welshman Desmond Llewelyn, the fictional Q was nothing if not a dreamer. Yet not everything the Bond technician dreamt up became standard issue. 007 never did get to try out the couch, showcased in The Living Daylights, that swallowed up anyone who sat on it. The spy also managed without the telephone box equipped with air bags able to crush anyone inside it. And we never heard a sound out of the exploding alarm clock - "guaranteed," Q said in License to Kill, "never to wake...
...most treasured pieces and the miles of cluttered stacks that inundate Widener, Lamont, and Harvard’s many other libraries stand two centers in charge of ensuring that these objects are preserved: the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and the Weissman Preservation Center. Although the technicians at these two Centers play a behind-the-scenes role, their use of ever-developing technologies to preserve the works of the past are integral to the creation and maintenance of Harvard’s world-renowned literary and artistic collections.DON’T GO, ROTHKOSince it?...
...narrative that Trisha Parker, 19, is hoping to avoid for her infant son. Parker can't live with her mother, who receives federal housing assistance, and neither can she live with her grandmother in the Chicago suburbs much longer. Parker says she completed training to be a medical technician, but couldn't find work in the field. She was recently hired as a security guard, earning $11 an hour. But that's hardly enough to afford even a $600 a month studio apartment. Larger units are beyond her reach. "They want the first and last month's security deposit" which...
...someone like David Herrera, a Las Cruces film technician whose work depends on what movies are being filmed in the area, shopping around his newly earned sheep-shearing skills might just be a way to supplement his income, and return to his family's rural roots. His grandfather was the ranch foreman for the western artist Peter Hurd in southern New Mexico's Hondo Valley and even appears in some of his pastoral paintings. Herrera's classmates included NMSU undergraduate and graduate students, some of whom considered sheep shearing an important part of their studies. "I'm doing a graduate...