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...even generosity is recession-proof. According to Giving USA Foundation, charitable giving dropped 5.7% in inflation-adjusted dollars last year--the worst plunge in 50 years. Given the roller-coaster stock market and rising unemployment, however, some experts expressed surprise that the fall wasn't more precipitous...
...this spring, when I heard that an upcoming barbecue competition on our block would pit me against Stock (Dorfman's next-door neighbor), I quailed. Stock is a barbecue bully. During the last cook-off, he planked a salmon that was epic - and he never stopped gloating about it. Now, with the Great Chicken Grill-Off only weeks away, he was mincing about with a plan to kill his own poultry. And I? I had nothing...
...Stock was a dead man. And he didn't even know it yet. Over the next 10 days, I smoked chickens, ducks, brisket, pheasant and, most delectable of all, ribs. I had lungs like a coal miner's but continued to smoke anything I could find. I almost threw my wife's little dog in there...
...competition, my neighbors arrived with their chickens. Stock brought something he called "Chicken Salad in the Style of Zuni Café." I took him out back and, with a flourish, unlatched the smoker door. Stock looked stricken. Then he brightened as I pulled out my entrée. "Ribs?" he snorted. They would disqualify me for it, but they would love me too, for these were the best ribs ever. Stock hasn't mentioned his salmon since...
...unfair to guilt Mom and Dad into spending money on expensive clothes? Are kids these days actually acting responsibly? "More than ever, we're seeing that teens are responding to value," says Jeffrey Klinefelter, an equity-research analyst at Piper Jaffray who has written a semiannual research report, "Taking Stock in Teens," for the past eight years. "They seem to be taking on some personal responsibility and discipline in spending money...