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...snowy Chicago parking lot for Kmart, I have an epiphany: hobby shops. My confidence renewed, I make my way to two odd stores that smell like diesel and boys. Same story at both: no Polar Express trains until February. "Ha! Good luck," says the owner of Grayland Station. He slips me the card of a friend's shop that had one set as of last night. From my car, I dial my cell phone with frozen fingers. The woman who answers tells me I am lucky: I'll be No. 58 on her waiting list. The Toy Station...
...uncommon one because it isn't particularly powerful. Vang says he was lost when he stumbled upon and climbed onto a deer stand, a structure about 10 ft. high that gives hunters a better view of their quarry. Vang says he was approached by Terry Willers, a co-owner of the property, who asked him to leave and then radioed friends in a cabin nearby. Vang says that as he was leaving the area, the others arrived, surrounded him and taunted him with racial insults. When he finally was able to walk about 100 ft. away, he says, Willers...
...shacks that serve as teahouses and kebab stalls, some of them patronized by leaders of the Sunni militant groups that have turned Adhamiya into a hotbed of insurgency in the Iraqi capital--a "Little Fallujah in the middle of Baghdad," in the words of a local shop owner...
...York are disappointed. Two weeks earlier, it was the Pats turn to disappoint, courtesy of a whipping from the surging Pittsburgh Steelers. The real winner, as it is every Sunday, is the National Football League. "We compete against each other for three hours a week," says Robert Kraft, owner of the defending-champion Patriots, speaking of his gridiron adversaries. "Otherwise we have aligned interests...
Although the Patriots are now one of the NFL's most successful teams, the counterintuitive management lesson that owner Kraft had to learn is that losing is the defining feature of football. "Even in a good year, when you go 10-6, you are going to lose about 40% of your games," he says. So Kraft went long in his management approach. A paper-industry magnate, he says football has a lot in common with the rough-and-tumble paper trade, in which shifting commodity prices can quickly turn gains into losses. But having the right system in place brings...