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...outpacing the majors' 3% growth. Last year the minors drew 38.8 million fans, the largest total since 1949. This season could be a record breaker as minor-league owners, seeing profits in a business that had stagnated for decades, have opened new stadiums and offered every conceivable promotion to attract fans. Indeed, the showmanship is a throwback to the days of Bill Veeck, the legendary, maverick big-league owner who once sent a midget to bat. The St. Paul Saints, owned by Veeck's son Mike, gave out inflatable bats, sponsored by the maker of Viagra, to every man over...
Whole Foods, along with its chief rival, Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo., is riding a surge of interest in so-called natural and organic foods. While such foods account for just 3% of Americans' grocery bills, they attract higher-income buyers and yield fatter profits for grocers and producers. And a parade of food scares--mad-cow disease, hormones and antibiotics in meat and milk, pesticides in produce, genetically altered "Frankenfoods"--is propelling more shoppers to go organic. Result: sales of natural and organic foods are growing at an 18% annual clip and are projected to surpass...
...like to bathe in public. this inclination has so far failed to attract much attention because I live in Japan, where hot-spring hopping is a national obsession and the remarkable benefits of bathing are heralded on a daily basis in the media. While growing up here, I harbored violent objections to displaying my everything to a bunch of naked strangers. Only as an achy, fatigued adult has it begun to sink in: What better way to slow the insane pace of this jam-packed country than with a good, long soak...
...Carinthia tourist office's English-language website had nearly as much traffic as it did in the whole of last year. Before the Ryanair service began, tourism spokeswoman Martina Skrube had a hard time selling local delights to overseas visitors. "Now," she says, "we hope we can really attract British guests...
...Monkeys may be your only company at Khao Wang. Phetchaburi does not have the grand hotels and great beaches that traditionally attract tourists. Instead, its charm lies in the streets little changed since the 1800s, and a collection of temples that rank among Thailand's most diverse. Murals at Wat Ko Kaeo Sutharam show a Westerner (an early Jesuit missionary most likely) attending an ancient Buddhist ceremony. That may be the only Western face you see in Phetchaburi these days. Which is strange, considering that in its heyday, the hilltop palace complex was the hip place to swing...