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Self-serve city

When it comes time to leave your pod to get stuff done out there, no prob. Increasingly, the mantra is: Who needs others? Just help yourself.

By Ric Kahn
Globe Staff / January 21, 2007

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In the bowels of my place of employ, I tossed four quarters into a premium coffee maker and slipped a packaged pod of joe into the machine's trap door. The ensuing jolt of java propelled me along a solitary passage into self-serve city. (Full article: 2025 words)

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