How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE Jul 18, 1999

Working with the system

by Jean Pearce

A reader hopes to benefit from today's recession. She has heard that because so many companies have gone bankrupt, it is easy to buy good secondhand office furniture. But where? she asks. How I wish she had asked the people who told her about those ...

How-tos | GETTING THINGS DONE Jul 14, 1999

Substitutes

by Jean Pearce

A woman tells us she is a vegetarian in the real sense -- no meat, fish or animal byproducts, even gelatin. In England she could buy dried mixes that could be reconstituted by adding water and then used to make sausages (Sosmix) and burgers ...