The next step is to contact management teams at local startups for advice, coffee, or no more than 30 minutes of their time.

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Or take a current, perhaps more frivolous but no less instructive, example: coffee.

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But the 29-year-old New Yorker says the premium you pay for the Express does not represent value for money, with no more legroom than a normal train and not even a complimentary coffee or tea.

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Compared with people who drank no coffee at all, men and women who drank six or more cups per day were 10% and 15% less likely, respectively, to die during the study.

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At first glance the office appeared to be awash with T-shirts and ponytails, more like a technology firm than a government department, though with much worse coffee and no free food.

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Contrary to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, there's no evidence that DDT causes cancer in humans--you are exposed to more carcinogens in a cup of coffee than from long-term exposure to DDT.

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Also, I noticed that a lot of coffee shop food handlers would wear pajama pants, which were very untidy, so I said no more pajamas were to be worn.

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