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...Lowdown:When a book opens with a paean to the wonderful smell of burning buffalo dung - "At times I've dipped my face into the smoke and picked up the odors of cinnamon and cloves, dried straw and pumpkins" - you know it's going to be a dirty read. But there's really no other way to talk about hunting, and Rinella's tale of tracking buffalo in Alaska is alluringly visceral in its description. His multichapter description of killing, skinning and chopping up a buffalo cow is alternately stomach-turning and riveting. It's easy to understand the allure...
...Lowdown:Kids are accidents waiting to happen - and too often you don't have to wait long. There's a reason human children have so long a period of dependency compared with other mammals, and it's that it takes them that long to learn to look out for themselves. Until then, it's up to adults to take charge. The WHO's report can help...
...Lowdown:Greven does not support the "just be yourself" method of dating - he recommends copying someone cool - but let's be honest: sometimes that method doesn't work (especially in elementary school, when "being yourself" often translates to "eating boogers"). He warns against passing love notes, as they tend to get intercepted; he's mercifully still a few years away from discovering the horrors of drunk dialing. Greven also believes that pretty girls are coldhearted and regular-looking girls make better girlfriends (is he even old enough to have heard Jimmy Soul's "If You Wanna Be Happy"?). He refers...
...Lowdown: Americans looking for a morale boost should look elsewhere. The first sentence of the report pretty much says it all: "Overall economic activity weakened across all Federal Reserve districts." But the country can take some small comfort in knowing that businesses in each of the 12 districts - from Boston to Dallas to Kansas City - are all suffering. As the ole saying goes, misery loves company and, evidently, there are plenty of miserable companies to go around...