Picking up the pieces
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Their homes are in ruins, many have only the clothes they&#39;re wearing, yet those who took a direct hit from hurricane Ivan returned to their neighbourhoods yesterday determined to rebuild.
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By Pam Kowalik, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained. It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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By Mike Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb.
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Blog: People who dumpster dive for their makings and living tools.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep.
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 8--In an ideal world, every time a new TV set or computer monitor was purchased, an old, junky one would be recycled -- rather than being dumped from Skyline Parkway or tossed into a rural ditch or even forgotten in a basement.
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By Beth Velliquette, The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C.  Jun.
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By Steve Kuchera, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 19--.   In Indian belief, things flow in circles. So it isn't surprising that some American Indians would embrace recycling.
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Stick a tape in the VCR and save it for posterity. Clip the newspapers. Buy the frame for the ticket stub. Baseball history beckons.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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Sometimes, buying new is worth the expense.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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They're not obvious and they're not always cheap.
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I picked up my 6-year-old son from school last week, and we drove to Wal-Mart to see the future for paper checks. We grabbed a few of life&#39;s staples: some Legos, a pack of 3x5 cards to create