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...fast-breeding, vegetation-devouring scourges from Australia, were overly fond of Pete's young trees. Beneath a sky brilliant with stars, I swept the trees with a portable searchlight designed to mesmerize the marsupials mid-meal. In the space of an hour we found three, and with a light crack from his .22, Pete sent them to possum heaven. As much as I enjoyed helping out, I found possum-fur blankets a little hard to bear afterwards. Call (64-6) 874-7990 for reservations...
...That's not to say the foreigners are unstoppable. Both Wal-Mart and Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, tried and failed to crack the Hong Kong market in the 1990s. Hong Kong consumers seemed to prefer familiar neighborhood chain stores. Carrefour lost $400 million between 1996 and 2000 on four Hong Kong outlets. "It all ended in tears, really," says Alan Treadgold, director of retail research for ad agency Leo Burnett Worldwide in Sydney. "They just couldn't make the format work...
Deborah Browder, a soft-spoken junior at the Boston Arts Academy, chose to depict civilization as a series of symbols emerging out of a pearly gray cloud: a city skyline with lightning, a blurry dove, a rose growing out of a dirty crack in a sidewalk. Her painting is extraordinarily evocative and sophisticated—especially the portrait of her family in the corner which almost looks like a photograph. “They don’t know that I’m painting them,” she smiled quietly. “It’s going...
Even as you successfully tuck the gremlin away for now, reassuring yourself that the blip is a one-time misstep, inconsequential in the scheme of things, lingering doubts remain, a crack in your self-confidence. But then you suffer the more common minor annoyances of everyday life—you make a comment that is quickly dismissed in section as irrelevant, a close friend doesn’t say ‘hi’ on the street, or you feel passed over in an extracurricular—and the self-esteem gremlin once again rears its ugly head. Except...
...We’re really open to keeping the atmosphere at practice light but if we’ve got to crack down to make victories happen we’ll do that,” Kersey says...