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...expecting more death and destruction," said one senior, reaching for her Diet Coke. "I was expecting more rain," said another. "I was expecting more flying livestock," said a junior...
When Angie Nolting learned to use a computer at the Ortonville, Minn., high school last year, she went far beyond basic programming. Mastering an electronic work-sheet program called VisiCalc, the 16-year-old junior built a financial model that showed which livestock operations on her parents' 40-acre farm were no longer profitable, and why. By surveying farms in the area to compare feed costs, weight gain per animal and other variables, Angie discovered that the family's flock of 50 sheep was overfed. Guided by her data, the Noltings cut back on feed outlays. Although the threat...
Like most everything else about Lorrie Moore's collection of short stories from the title on, this subversively weird choice of quotes (the third one comes from Butchering Livestock at Home) is at once whimsically ironic and bitterly true. Moore's basic here and throughout is that can be as radical radical and ridiculous as the globular mollusk's loss of a tentacle during sex. The stories deal with pain of the most banal and yet terrible sort--the pain of relationships and marriages gone bad, of broken families...
...quiet talk centers on the misfortune of Steffes, his wife Pat, 45, and their two surviving children, Kay and Bruce, 19. Without saying so, each visitor is aware that his or her farm could go next. Third- generation farmers, the Steffes had acquired 280 acres by 1966, raising livestock and planting a variety of crops. In the booming 1970s they added another 180 acres and rented 530 more. Farming began to sour for them in 1979, just as tragedy struck. They lost two sons, 16 and 20, to cancer. Their sons' medical costs came on top of farming setbacks. Still...
...that a lot, 'You were only picked because of your image,' " she says. In the opinion of more than a few experts, Florida (9-1-1) possesses the choicest livestock at the moment, but the Gators are No. 1 only on the N.C.A.A. court docket, awaiting sentencing for recruiting violations. Considering the moral depravity of this sport, it is possible that some A.P. and U.P.I, voters could be negatively influenced by B.Y.U.'s positive image, maybe just finding it hard to credit that the nation's best college football team could be a relentlessly white...