Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sure, paper clips end up floating around junk drawers and clutter desk tops, but they’re good for more than just organizing papers ...

The paper clip is a staple of office culture. They perform a necessary office function--keeping papers together on a temporary basis--that few if any other products can do so effectively and cheaply.

Videos of men covering themselves with cardboard boxes while travelling on Kerala buses have gone viral, days after a ...

James Ward has an unusual attachment to paper clips. And when he sees one, he sees "a piece of art, but it's also a piece of useful art." And like any serious art appreciator, he is also a collector.

The paper clips are collected, cleaned, and packed tightly. Once they hit the forge, they glow bright orange, softening into ...

While the average shredder may not be up to the task, the so-called "heavy duty" shredders can usually make mincemeat of staples and paper clips. Despite the somewhat ambiguous term, powerful ...

Gahanna Lincoln High School students are getting a lesson on life and it all revolves around a paper clip -- six million of them, to be exact. History teacher Jennifer Candor says the six million ...

The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004 show Humble Masterpieces. This was a ...

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A Pittsburgh dentist admits he used ordinary office supplies to do root canals on his patients. The paper clips were bought at an office supply store, then permanently inserted into ...

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This is a story about two German journalists, one Internet-surfing Holocaust survivor, and the millions of paper clips middle school students in one Tennessee town have received from all over the ...