March 2011
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VOGUE: Style Ethics with Alicia Silverstone →
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by Christine Lennon
“I have some guidelines when it comes to clothes, or anything really,” says Alicia Silverstone, celebrity authority on the vegan lifestyle. “First, I try to find it used so…
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Sorry Boston, Google Fiber goes to Kansas →
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“I feel a little bad for the plastic skeletons I trained on.”
– Roni Zeiger, Google product manager, referring to the search giant’s professional-grade 3-D anatomical tours. — @dcdenison, The Boston Globe
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“For several days after the president’s visit, students who had shaken Obama’s...”
– From a Boston Globe editorial citing Globe columnist Lawrence Harmon reporting on President Obama’s visit earlier this month to TechBoston Academy.
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‘Seder in a Box’ provides essentials for Jewish... →
JewishBoston.com is offering its first do-it-yourself Seder kit. Free to Boston-area residents, ages 18 to 40, who sign up by April 8, ‘Seder in a Box’ includes: a Seder plate, a basic Haggadah, a leader’s guide, recipes, a shopping list, instructions for setting the table, and a matzo cover. Oh, and some green plastic frogs, representing one of the 10 plagues.
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Why doesn't General Electric pay taxes? →
GE made $14.2 billion in worldwide profits last year. Its U.S. corporate tax bill? Zero. -—The Week
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WatchBoston public schools’ lottery is used to distribute students without bias across a district with schools of dramatically differing quality. Parents rank their choices, and their children have a better chance of getting into a school that’s close to home or that a sibling already attends. But there are no guarantees, and the assignments rely in large part on the random number each student is...
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WatchUntil this year, only a select group of World War II buffs and researchers was allowed into this astonishing trove of wartime artifacts hidden in a squat warehouse off Route 9. It is a museum that actor and producer Tom Hanks has described as the “Holy Grail of World War II.’’
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“It’s a great place to work. When people come in here, they need something...”
– Carolyn Roosevelt, an employee of Bob Slate stationery stores in Cambridge. The landmark business is closing after almost 80 years of supplying what were once the fundamentals of correspondence. - Boston Globe
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“To the murderer in this courtroom, as I’ve said in the past, this verdict...”
– David Cates, husband of Kimberly Cates and father of Jaimie Cates. Quote from the sentencing today of Christopher Gribble, the 21-year-old man who killed Kimberly Cates and maimed her daughter in a horrific home invasion in a small New Hampshire town in 2009.
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L.L. Bean embraces year-round free shipping →
FREEPORT, Maine — L.L. Bean is giving in to customer demand and waiving shipping fees, all the time, with no minimum order, the company said today.
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“The global apparel industry is a global sweatshop, and that has to do with...”
– Robert J.S. Ross, a professor of sociology at Clark University and author of “Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops,” says poor conditions still exist for garment workers around the globe. From an interview by @GlobeMuther, The Boston Globe.
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