Word: breeds
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...course, at this point, no proposed remedy--including the idea of a "gilt lift" of 300,000 sows to hurricane-ravaged Central America--may do much for the independent hog farmer. George Bailey is one of that fading breed; he owns 650 sows in Walstonburg, N.C., and unlike corporate megafarms, isn't blessed with deep pockets. In the past year Bailey has had to use most of his savings just to stay afloat, and he still racked up $35,000 in additional debt. "We're slowly going broke," he notes. "The [meat] packers are making a killing...
Like any seasoned flight attendant, Fiona Weir has had her share of disgruntled passengers. But Steven Handy, 37, an unemployed Englishman who boarded an Airtours late-night flight from London to Spain six weeks ago, was a different breed. Apparently drunk at takeoff, he ignored Weir's warnings not to smoke in the lavatory, cursed her and demanded liquor, Weir says. Then, just as the plane was landing in Malaga, Handy reportedly smashed her over the head with a duty-free vodka bottle before being restrained by fellow passengers...
...every time you take an aspirin. Trouble is, aspirin, ibuprofen and other over-the-counter pain killers wreak havoc on the stomach lining--and kill thousands every year through internal bleeding. So last week, an FDA advisory panel gave the green light to Celebrex, the first of a new breed of drugs called cox-2 inhibitors that promise to deliver all the relief of today's pain killers with none of the side effects. Celebrex, made by Monsanto's G.D. Searle, is expected to get formal approval this week; arthritis patients will be the first to get prescriptions...
Although both Ducasse, 43, and Vongerichten, 41, may have elevated their art a zillion notches above the usual run of Food Network stars, they are also typical of the new breed of chef-entrepreneur. Ducasse's unprecedented "deux fois trois etoiles"--achieved last March when Michelin inspectors gave his Paris restaurant its third star to join those already won by his Louis XV in Monte Carlo--has traditionalists sniffing that the master rarely actually cooks at either restaurant, but Ducasse likes to compare himself to an haute couture designer who depends on a team to execute his visions...
Back in 1986, when Espy became the first black elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, he looked like the archetype of a new breed of crossover politician--shrewd enough to reach out to whites by standing up for prayer in schools and by posing in ads for the National Rifle Association. Even some good ole boys predicted that he would someday be Governor or Senator. Though he was doing a terrific job, Espy was forced out of office for chump change. Instead of moving on to a glittering future, he got kicked out of the Cabinet in disgrace...