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MaryJane Butters ("pioneer Martha") can tell you how to raise a pig. A few years back, she was camping out under the elements because she couldn't afford to rebuild her cottage after it burned down. Today she has a $1.3 million, two-book deal with Random House's Clarkson Potter. In her first title, due out in 2005, Butters, who made not having to leave her farm to do a book tour a condition of signing the deal, is expected to address everything from livestock to slipcovers...
...Jill Richardson, 25, doesn't have a roster of clients yet. On a rainy Tuesday, over hot chocolate at Starbucks, she tests her interviewing skills on college friend Pete Gelling. Richardson wants to market to young singles, but many of her peers--including Gelling, an aspiring journalist--can't afford the $350 introductory fee or the $75 monthly charges the school recommends. "If I had a job, I'd do it, though," says Gelling, 24. Most of their friends have profiles on Internet sites like Nerve and Friendster and see little shame in matchmaking. "Even when...
...Afford It, Madam K Louis Vuitton's New York City store unveiled retail tracking software that recalls customers' likes, how quickly they pay and which ones are serial returners...
...Scientific Committee, has been monitoring kangaroos since 1974. He says long-term monitoring usually happens only if a species is commercially harvested, a pest or attracts the interest of scientists or hobbyists. Grigg?s colleague Tony Pople, a population ecologist, agrees: ?Monitoring is a luxury that we can?t afford with limited conservation and management dollars - you?re forced to monitor only when you need to.? When Mooney and a visiting ecologist, Marco Restani of Minnesota?s St. Cloud State University, carried out that first snapshot survey last year, Restani paid for the hire of their trailer. Since then, Tasmanian...
...years, nine of the ten Best Picture nominees weren’t released until the second half of December (the exception was summer sleeper Moulin Rouge). With a few extra weeks of campaigning time between the end of the year and the Oscar nominations, studios could afford to hold their best films until the holidays and then deluge Variety and The Hollywood Reporter with flashy “For Your Consideration” ads throughout the first month of the year. As awards season battles between the studios intensified in recent years, Miramax became known...