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...neon, since what he is farming is every bit as fantastical as the surrounds. Follow the driveway to the rear of his otherwise ordinary house, and the mountains form a natural amphitheater around what is pure show business. As a sign hanging by the door of an enormous shed reads: GNOME FARM, SOUND HORN FOR SERVICE. Spilling out from the shed is a chorus of concrete creatures which Myers makes, repairs and sells to the public. He characterizes the latter as "licorice all-sorts-anyone who doesn't understand what the sign is. Locals, interstaters, people from overseas. Just never...
...animals he lives to protect. Despite his efforts, he laments, "There's an unbelievable quantity of skins on the market." Indeed, as India revels in its emergence as a global economic power, conservationists wonder if the unique wildlife that once owned the land is simply being left behind, shed like an old skin. "I think India has to ask itself if it really wants the tiger," says Wright. "Because the signs are it doesn...
Many of the challenges facing Dell seem to spring from the very innovations that made it a juggernaut. By selling direct, Dell keeps a lid on overhead and offers customized computers at competitive prices, with relatively swift delivery. As the price of computing dropped, Dell was consistently able to shed costs and maintain a price advantage over rivals. But this year Dell's competitors have attacked that price gap. HP slashed thousands of jobs and reduced the number of assembly plants, streamlining its supply chain and enabling it to go head to head with Dell on low-end machines. Retailers...
...partly to low voter turnout and to the presence of a third "spoiler" candidate. But she also appears to have suffered from the controversy surrounding her scuffle with a Capitol Hill cop that landed her in a grand jury trial in which she was ultimately acquitted. Redistricting, which shed some of McKinney's antagonistic white constituency, did not appear to help...
...years ago this week, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb with an unique pedigree took her first breath in a small shed tucked in the Scottish hills a few miles south of Edinburgh. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born each summer on surrounding farms. But Dolly, as the world soon came to realize, was no ordinary lamb. She was cloned from a single mammary cell of an adult ewe, overturning long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible. Her birth set off a race in laboratories...