Take away a pie and a plastic spoon for a sunset picnic at the waterfront Louis Valentino Jr Park, once home to Fort Defiance, which protected Manhattan from British ships in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

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Square launched in 2009 as a way for people to take credit-card payments by swiping cards in a small plastic reader that plugs into the headphone jack of a cell phone.

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Ms Shand told the court that Zoe had been lying there with a sheet of plastic over her face and only a murderer would take the dreadful step of setting her on fire.

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Knapp can see a time not so far in the future when even taxi drivers will take plastic, as they do in London, punching them into meters that double as a card-reading machines.

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For those determined to take hygiene to a ridiculous level, Travel Feet are plastic feet covers that you can wear in airports when you have to take your shoes off for security.

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The divers seal them in heavy duty plastic bags and, once on shore, take the nets to a landfill.

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On Monday, they were home with their grateful mother, and Shaw and Rocky were being honored at the fire station -- Shaw with a fireman's hat and Rocky with a giant rawhide bone he grabbed from Fire Chief Ken Block before Block could take off its plastic wrapper.

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On 19 September, the eve of the full moon, many people take to the streets or parks carrying lit paper lanterns hooked over a thin bamboo stick (or the modern plastic equivalent).

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When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the nice World Services employee a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the shuttle.

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