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Rick Letourneau lost so much money as a conventional dairy farmer that he had to sell all his cattle and burn furniture to heat his house. Today, though, he proudly shows off his three dozen lowing, impatient cows as they wait their turn to give it up to a mechanical milker. He nods toward the new mudroom and double-hung windows and pale yellow siding on his home and talks about building two more winter shelters for the livestock. And he plans to keep improving his 85-acre spread near North Troy, Vt., with financing from his local bank...
...declaring that I write almanacks with no other view than that of the public good; but in this I should not be sincere," Poor Richard began his first preface. "The plain truth of the matter is, I am excessive poor, and my wife ... has threatened more than once to burn all my books and Rattling-Traps (as she calls my instruments) if I do not make some profitable use of them for the good of my family...
...around 500,000 copies. In the cruel calculus of the record business--in which everyone gets his cut before the artist and a majority of singers owe their record companies money--gold barely pays the bills. "It takes me a long time to make a record, and I burn through a lot of cash and a lot of energy," says Phair. "To hear that it'll be [only] O.K. successful brings you down...
...recording isn't finished. You can also watch a previously recorded show while another recording is in progress. The E60 includes slots for SD (secure digital) and PC cards as well as a digital-video port, so you can view images onscreen from a still or video camera, burn them onto a DVD and edit them...
...acquiring new planes to replace older stock. That not only helps with safety and the perception of safety but also is good for the books, at least in the long run. While new Boeing 717s cost $37 million each on the front end, AirTran CEO Joe Leonard says they burn 24% less fuel than AirTran's remaining DC-9s and thus cost $500 an hour less to operate...