Word: amaranth
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...return for Chinese pewter, celadon and combs), stripping its flora and fauna of the romance of place in a manner more reminiscent of a CIA Factbook entry than Polo's Il Milione. "For vegetables," he writes, "they have onions, mustard, chives, eggplants, watermelons, winter gourds, snake gourds, and amaranth. They do not have radishes, lettuce, chicory, or spinach...
...using 100% wind power. And every aspect of the packaging has a secondary use, from the glass bottles to the 100% postconsumer-waste boxes that are folded using origami to avoid glue: thousands of seeds are incorporated into each box so they may be planted to grow Genovese basil, amaranth flowers or a sea buckthorn tree. "It comes down to one word, respect," Onysko says. "For the earth, your employers, farmers and for yourself, not burning yourself out. If you think about things that way, it's amazing how your life starts changing...
There is also the worry that a big hedge fund (or funds) could melt down, as Amaranth Advisors did in September when it vaporized $6 billion in a week by making a bad bet on the future price of natural gas. Among the fund's investors was the $7.7 billion San Diego County pension fund, which was out nearly $90 million...
...broader concern is that an Amaranth-type event or series of events would ripple through the system, as in the case of 1998's implosion of Long-Term Capital Management, which zapped more than $4 billion in short order and required a federally engineered bailout to protect the worldwide economy...
...billion Amount Amaranth lost when it liquidated assets at a discount to avoid a possible shutdown...