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Twenty miles southwest of Scottsbluff, Jim Wyatt, 41, who has already stripped his fields of everything but baked, brown grass, is hoping he can find enough scrub weed in neighbors' pastures to feed his cattle. Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...
...Cover Girl and Max Factor lines are enjoying banner sales with the introduction of their Outlast and Lipfinity long-lasting lipsticks. Of course, the success of cosmetics and other beauty products depends much more on fashion and sex appeal than do sales of toilet paper. As AllianceBernstein analyst Jim Gingrich notes, "P&G still has things to learn about how to market products where benefits are more intangible...
...authors, new and established, being published. Also featuring in this year's rentrée are the prolific and ingenious Amélie Nothomb, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Yann Queffélec and Nina Bouraoui. Foreign translations - a significant part of French publishing output - include new books by Nadine Gordimer, Jim Harrison, V.S. Naipaul and Jonathan Franzen. All that ensures enough quality and variety for returning vacationers to read themselves out of any rentrée blues...
...immensely pleased to welcome Jim Hogle,” said Margot Dill, administrative dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and head of the search committee that picked Hogle. “He is a respected scientist and dedicated teacher and advisor who has worked closely with graduate students...
...ceremony closed with a reading of the Declaration of Independence by New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey (D) and a rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner played by the string quartet...