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...have known him since he scraped his way out of Robbins, N.C., the mill town he talks about at every stop and in every speech. That's because shooting the moon has long been Edwards' strongest game. He has for years been willing to ignore local conventions, bet the farm on a hunch and streak past his stunned, sometimes resentful rivals as he collected an armful of glittering prizes. It is a career arc that, in national politics at least, might be shocking were it not so much like that of another Southern pol who jumped at mid-life into...
...pictures can be seen at www.kuhleasing.ch), and pay the leasing fee of $300 as well as the additional $13 per kg of cheese your cow will produce during the summer, amounting to about 70-120 kg. In the fall you are invited to go up to the Wylers' farm to get the soft or hard Swiss cheese...
...Wylers, who ask that the renters spend at least half a day helping out with farm chores, say their customers are city slickers from around the world. "We never imagined it would turn out to be so popular," says Paul...
...manage the problem without culling, the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi park launched this auction - South Africa's biggest - which attracts game-preserve owners, hunters and conservationists, who come to buy animals as big as giraffes or as small as the groundhog-like rock hyraxes known as dassies. "Game farming is the way ahead," says Horsley, who runs a 3,000-hectare game farm nearby. Like many South African farmers, he's moving into raising game after a career spent farming more traditional animals; in his case, cattle. Game animals are much easier to look after. "The animals just...
...also not news that some of the black musicians that helped lay the foundation for rock were poorly compensated for their breakthrough work. Crudup's 1946 version of That's All Right wasn't a hit and he eventually returned to an occupation where his efforts were better rewarded - farm work. Turner's Rocket 88 was a No. 1 smash but Turner later claimed in his autobiography, Takin' Back My Name, that he was only paid $20 for his contributions...