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...life.The most bitter of these is still as vivid a memory as my last trip to Berryline. I was outside alone one day during the summer after my sophomore year of high school, slowly disintegrating under a sweltering sun. Obviously the occasion, which sprawled over four hours, was ripe for serious introspection. My reflection that day was absorbed by one simple and painfully obvious realization: something was terribly, terribly wrong with this picture.Perhaps it was the heavy, unwieldy sign that concealed more than half of my body, or the fact that I was teetering on a curb and frantically waving...
...time appears ripe for deep-discounters, and Aldi is on an expansion tear. Last year, Aldi generated some $5.8 billion in U.S. sales, up from $5.3 billion in 2006, according to Supermarket News, an industry journal. It now has about 950 stores in 29 states and plans to open more than 100 stores in the next two years in Connecticut, Missouri and Texas. The company will have opened 100 new stores by the end of the year, double the number opened last year. Aldi is also making a big push into central Florida, including cities like Sanford. The city...
...time that a new underground culture was beginning to break out. Skateboarding had begun in California in the 1950s as people skated in unused swimming pools before spilling out onto skating ramps and the streets. However, the movie argues that, by the late-70s, “skateboarding seemed ripe for the museum of failed fads.” What saved it was street skating in cities.“Recognizing that it could happen anywhere and on everything, that’s what saved skateboarding,” Rick Charnoski says. Charnoski co-directed “Deathbowl...
...good plumber can pretty much write his ticket and make a good living with a good amount of experience," Abrams says. The outsourcing boom that has sucked information technology jobs overseas, coupled with a dearth of workers in plumbing - a somewhat recession-resistant market - makes for an industry ripe for growth. As for Wurzelbacher, based on the region of the country he works in, the amount of experience he has, and the fact that he is unlicensed, he could be currently making anywhere between $40,000 and $70,000 - and no, he won't get stung by the Obama...
...hardly noticed when Frederick departed to the small sculpture gallery off the main hall. No, she was alone here, alone again with The Stable Boy.The cool stale air, the marble floors, the stone balustrades, the gilt frames, Filippo—all but The Stable Boy dissolved into a ripe sun, a voluptuous ribbon of billowing moor, a stable floor strewn with hay that could not mask the brutal hardness of wood. She felt the splinters scraping her tender back as though it had been yesterday.And he was here in Italy. She knew it with as much certainty...