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...consumers are drinking it up. Bianchi, whose company trades publicly on the over-the-counter market, is making very bold promises for Drank and its potential shareholders. "By the end of the year, I will be in every grocery store in America and every food-drug chain in America, just like Red Bull," Bianchi boasts. "I'm in negotiations with every major drug chain and every major grocery store chain, and I will go on the record and say it's with them contacting us, without our solicitation to them." Bianchi rattles off the list of chains he says have...
...disruption that a pandemic might cause outside the health sector--what Michael Osterholm, who heads the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), terms "collateral damage"--could be even worse. The "just in time" supply chain on which so many U.S. corporations rely leaves little slack and could buckle during a pandemic. In a report last year, CIDRAP noted that 40% of the U.S. coal supply, which generates half the nation's electricity, is shuttled from mines in Wyoming to the rest of the country by train. If a pandemic simultaneously sickened enough coal workers--or the tiny number...
...What They're Banning in Germany: On May 5, the German Constitutional Court upheld a ban on married people's combining already hyphenated names (or "chain names"), ruling that surnames with three or more parts "would quickly lose the effectiveness of their identifying purpose." The decision is less than shocking in a country where parents must seek approval from local authorities before they officially name their children...
...coils of razor wire glint in the prairie sun like silver tumbleweeds, piled against the chain-link perimeter fence around the Two Rivers Detention Facility in Hardin, Mont. Two years ago, the town (pop. 3,600) celebrated the completion of this $27 million state-of-the-art private prison, capable of holding 464 inmates. Convinced that the facility would provide employment for more than 100 people and a steady source of municipal income, Hardin and a neighboring town issued revenue bonds to finance its construction and turned it over to a for-profit prison-management corporation. On a 40-acre...
Guard your Grand Slam breakfasts, people. The recession has hit casual-dining chains like Denny's, Chili's and the Cheesecake Factory particularly hard, as consumers have traded down to less expensive fare at McDonald's. To draw more customers, Denny's is sponsoring shindigs like this one, building on its reputation as an after-party haven for young, hungry drunks (and, the company is quick to point out, sober people too). From 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the 56-year-old chain has started playing alternative-rock music in its restaurants. It has sponsored more than 30 emerging bands...