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...engineered an impressive turnaround. In February 2001, Future shuttered six magazines, sold Business 2.0 to Time Inc. and cut staff from 500 to 100. Simpson-Bint then refocused on gaming titles, including Official Xbox Magazine, and the company turned its first profit in June. It plans a new series of how-to computing magazines this spring...
...this dramatic, emotional side of homemaking that today's home shows appeal to, more than the nuts-and-bolts of nuts and bolts. Sure, there are still hard-core shows for people who actually own power sanders. But these new shows--light on the how-to, heavy on the effervescent patter--are more like daytime-TV makeovers: if only someone with a discerning eye looked at you, they say, you could discover your true, unique beauty. (They're not about doing it yourself; they're about redoing yourself...
...trilogy might seem a daunting task to most authors, but by now Ayckbourn knows his craft inside out. So much so that he has just published a how-to book, The Crafty Art of Playmaking (Faber & Faber). "I don't exclude the muse," he says. "But just letting the inspiration take you is a very risky way to write. You need rules to motor that inspiration." Scholarly in tone, the book provides what he calls 101 "Obvious Rules" for successful writing and directing. Having laid down the law, how well do his own plays follow them? Pretty closely...
...while their partner works.) The Internet site slowlane.com the leading information clearinghouse for at-home dads, logged 4.5 million hits in 2001, up a million from the year before. "This is a choice that just makes good practical sense for many couples," says Libby Gill, author of last year's how-to guide Stay-at-Home Dads (Plume). With 10 million working women earning more than their husbands in 1999, there's sheer practicality in choosing the partner who makes more money to be the breadwinner. But in many cases, couples choose this role reversal because Dad is better suited...
There are several styles of Tai Chi, but most of them start with a series of controlled movements, or forms, with names like Grasping the Sparrow's Tail and Repulse the Monkey. There are many good how-to books to get you started, or you can choose from among the growing number of classes offered at rec centers and health clubs across the U.S. (These have the added benefit of combining instruction with a chance to meet new people.) Either way, the goal is to move at your own pace. As Tai Chi master Martin...