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...cowboy boot into the caked earth and gives the coffee-colored dirt a scuff. Some 70 acres of scrubby land spread out in front of him under the washed-out blue sky. "See the soil. This is junk," Timberlake says. Under his breath, he counts a thin herd of cattle hanging their heads over the weeds. Once a horse trainer and breeder in Missouri, Timberlake now spends his days thinking about cows, and this time next year, he and his employer, Western Cattle Company, would like to see about 10,000 more living on this land. "I'd be taking...
...that takes “The Graduate,” slams it into “Siddhartha,” and rolls it all down Jack Kerouac’s road. When you start a Krakauer book—whether it be the Everest adventure “Into Thin Air” or Mormon tragedy “Under the Banner of Heaven”—you realize that you are about to embark upon an inspiring yet excruciating true-life journey that plays painful tricks on your nerves. When you hand one of these stories...
...real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp, taking a cooking class wherein they had no food to prepare, starving. I, too, was suffering hunger pains, and was engrossed in the feasts he was taught to conjure out of thin air. I, just like him, could do no more than dream of delectable chewables, constrained as I was to mush for weeks. And there we bonded. Sure, he was a Nazi soldier, a job he had volunteered for. And yeah, he was a member of the Waffen SS. But after...
...looking at a 50th-place finish,” Mayer said. “When you start missing putts and hitting errant shots, that can build upon itself and compound into more mistakes. Instead of 72, you’re looking at 78.” But the razor-thin margin of error that any golf team must cope with in tournaments also means that Harvard is closer to its best rounds than this week’s numbers suggest. “If everybody just improves one or two or three strokes per round, we’re definitely...
...crafting technique into its signature. Known as intrecciato?Italian for woven?the technique has been employed by Bottega Veneta since the company was founded by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro in the Veneto region of Italy in 1966. Originally thought of as a way to make the brand's thin, supple leather more durable, intrecciato has become a style statement in the hands of Bottega Veneta creative director Tomas Maier. And style icons like Oprah Winfrey and Katie Holmes have followed suit, snapping up the coveted intrecciato Cabat tote (a bag that takes two craftsmen two days to complete). When...