1.   An altar boy with a part-time job cutting open stacks of newspapers at a local store, the only thing remarkable about him was his size.

2.   Frye and Brown said the company has required black customers to lift open stacks of pancakes to show that they were not stealing anything.

3.   It was the kind of classic serendipitous event that makes libraries with open stacks such prodigious playgrounds for the mind.

4.   And in a country where libraries have for centuries been an elite preserve, it features open stacks for the first time.