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Carpenter, a city dweller who in recent years has tried her hand at raising turkeys (she got three day-old poults for $2 each) and pigs (which she fattened to 300 lb.) for dinner, says she turned to milk-producing goats because "I decided I needed a more long-term relationship." The author of the new Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, she is eager to help others get into what she describes as a "hobby that involves sex and birth and death and life." (See pictures of an apartment outfitted for goat-milking...
...There’s something kind of liberating about cheering for a bottom-dweller team. The late-’80s Braves were at the bottom of their then NL-West division, before making their turnaround in ’91. Perhaps the “aughts” are the ’80s for the Padres and they’ll be turning the ship around in the teens. They certainly have the young talent to do that. Guys like Adrian Gonzalez, Kevin Kouzmanoff, and Chase Headley provide some pop in the lineup, assuming the Padres can hold...
...Boca Raton and Radford. In the last contest, the Crimson edged out the Highlanders, who were recently ousted in the first round of the 2009 NCAA tournament, 3-2, to nab the title.But Harvard couldn’t maintain its preseason momentum, as the team split with perennial basement-dweller Columbia in its Ivy opener. Though the Crimson bounced back with back-to-back doubleheader wins against Penn and Rhode Island the next week, the team struggled to maintain consistency as the regular season wore on. “In general, it’s great to see that...
...roommate that summer in New York had gone to college in the city and was then writing for a lesbian magazine. She spoke often about the importance of queer journalism; she wrote, she said, for “that lesbian in Wisconsin”—the heartland-dweller who relies on New York publications as her outlets and sources of information. Remembering that these people exist outside of the city is crucial: For this young journalist, the battle was halfway won. But why didn’t she pack her bags and try living in Milwaukee or Madison...
...cinema seats faster than when the wooden puppet turns into a real boy, the quarreling couple falls in love or the plucky underdog becomes the hero. Which made it all the more poignant when, on Sunday night, a film about a young Indian boy's unlikely rise from slum dweller to millionaire received top prize at an awards show that, after so many years of being underappreciated, has finally come into...