Bankâs Trash Is Treasure for Grabbing
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In the breezy, amoral heist comedy âMad Money,â âFun With Dick and Janeâ meets â9 to 5â on the way to recession.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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By ANN S. KIM Staff Writer  When the two plastic crates at Tom Wiest's home fill up, it's time to head to the downtown recycling station. His desire to help the environment makes him a regular visitor.
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Investors are now searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The twisted mystery of an $800,000 suitcase confiscated in Argentina has kicked up so much dirt that almost everyone who gets near it -- even if clean -- is accused of being filthy.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained. It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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The hunt for tiny treasures continues.
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DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. - A bank that has been robbed so many times it bans customers from coming inside was held up again anyway on Friday.  Anyone using the Bank of America branch on Silver Hill Rd.
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Huge pools of state-controlled cash have rescued American and European banks from their own mistakes. And the people who run those funds want some respect.
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Benjamat Moongdee picked through the rubbish and debris from last month's tsunami to find anything she might sell.
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HONG KONG - DBS Bank is offering a total of HK$12.5 million (S$2.7 million) to compensate 83 Hong Kong customers whose safe-deposit boxes were accidentally trashed at a scrapyard.
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Improbably, a purveyor with a reputation for emptying pockets was coming to the rescue.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 8--For years, Raleigh's leftovers have been dumped on the northern end of the Dorothea Dix hospital campus.   But the city has turned that trash into treasure.
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Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.
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IT took thieves 2 1/2 hours to haul the sackloads of banknotes from the vault to a semi-trailer parked behind the Northern Bank&#39;s Belfast headquarters.
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Socially responsible funds are raking in the assets.
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Illegal lenders are siphoning money from state-owned banks, but they may do more good than harm