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...page 48, you use the phrases "remarkable genitalia," "extraordinary male attributes" and "beautifully equipped...
...use for the sort of fishing guide who takes you to the fish, points out the fish, tells you to keep your rod pointed down and when to "strip"--tug the line. All that baby-sitting will produce, he says, is a caught fish. What Chouinard wants to produce is an act of understanding. He teaches me about the different water speeds at three different depths. He shows me how to "mend the line," to slow up the motion of the fly. After 20 minutes of correcting and watching me, he suddenly leaves, and I do not notice his leaving...
...takes in fishing relates to operations at Patagonia. He says that from the outset in the early 1970s, the entire goal of the company was to do the right thing. At first it meant making the most useful and durable products, the best. Chouinard's company produced aluminum chocks instead of the old steel pitons for climbing so that rocks would not be scarred. It was also the first outdoors company to introduce modern synthetic fleece. In 1984 Chouinard directed his operation to tithe 1% of sales, which reached $180 million last year, for activist environmental groups. In 1996 Patagonia...
...ELEGANT AND ECOLOGICAL Japanese designer Unsetsu Furukawa knows eco-chic. This dress, created in rattan, a solid but flexible Asian cane that can be grown without chemicals, is typical of the couturier's use of natural materials. Furukawa's models also show off fashions woven out of fabric made from recycled plastic bottles...
LAST CHANCE This is the last year you can use the "five-year-averaging" rule to lower the taxes on lump-sum distributions on retirement plans. Next year such distributions will be taxed as income or as a capital gain. A 10-year tax option will still be available but only to those born before 1936. These rules don't apply to an IRA or 403(b), and not everyone is eligible. Unless you need the cash immediately, you're better off rolling it over into...