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Getting ahead in the shepherding biz is tricky. If you plan on starting from scratch, first you’ll need some sheep. Toward this end, an excellent resource is the National Tunis Sheep Registry (ezrone.com/ntsri), which prominently advertises “Sheep and Stuff for sale.” Of course, procuring the sheep is only the half the battle. You won’t want to kill your sheep, so check out Sheep! Magazine (sheepmagazine.com), taking careful note of tips such as, “Consider treating rams and ewes for worms, if necessary?...
...really have to start by putting pencil to paper. Every time I start something from scratch, I have so many things that I’m working on—files and files of half-finished and unfinished poems—so I look at them. And then that sets something else off. I very rarely sit down in front of a blank piece of paper and say, “What shall I write about?” It’s something ongoing...
...Yorkers are known for being jaded, and they are, but the iconic toughness is also a pose. It isn't just a matter of 8 million cynics who turn out to be romantics when you scratch them. As a practical matter, living here requires some willed sangfroid because living here also requires, more than anywhere else in America, an exhausting everyday vulnerability. We travel on subways packed shoulder to shoulder with exotic strangers close enough to smell their hair, and in taxis we put our lives in the hands of other random strangers who may or may not speak...
...July report contained the results of four San Francisco focus groups with college students and “young adults.” It’s conclusion: the groups’ reactions were so negative that scrapping Let’s Go altogether and starting from scratch might be in the company’s best interest...
Windows XP is really the first easy-to-use, built-from-scratch operating system for PC users. It narrows the ain't-computing-fun gap with the Macintosh platform. That's because Microsoft took a cue or two from Apple...