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...coffee and feeds her animals--including 30 sheep, 14 chickens and a horse--before slipping on heels and heading to the bank she co-owns. After work, she and husband Mike Zang, a 54-year-old boat salesman, stay up late doing chores on their 150-acre farm in Burlington, Wis. "Yes, I do this for enjoyment," says Bakshis, 43, and laughs. Former suburbanites, the couple bought their century-old farm in 1993 and are learning as they go. When they have questions about lamb birthing, they call their neighbors. And when they need fencing materials or a pressure washer...
Only seven years ago, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were struggling entrepreneurs who sold ice cream in a single-scoop shop that they had opened in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vt. Now Cohen and Greenfield, both 34, distribute their unusual flavors, including mint with Oreo cookies and Heath Bar crunch, throughout the Northeast, from Maine to Maryland, and to selected stores in Indiana, Tennessee and Colorado. Sales in the first half of 1985 reached $3.6 million, twice the pace of last year...
...were doing. Having failed to get into medical school, Greenfield was then a lab technician in North Carolina, and Cohen was a pottery teacher at a school in New York. After taking a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making from Penn State, the two set up shop in Burlington and gradually began to peddle their product to restaurants and stores in the area. Their chief promotional gimmick was a free sample. They once gave away ten tons of ice cream to a man who built the "world's largest sundae" for The Guinness Book of World Records...
When the Harvard men’s hockey team last skated off the ice in Burlington on Feb. 26, Crimson captain Noah Welch had acquired a slight limp in his left leg, sophomore Kevin Du had recovered his strength only with the help of an IV, and their teammates who weren’t injured or sick with the flu were fatigued after playing 10 games in 25 nights...
...BURLINGTON, Vt.—Harvard had never held a lead against Dartmouth the night before, so the Crimson wasted little time Saturday, notching a power-play goal just 4:26 into the first period...