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...using a fat plastic straw from McDonald's and a filter made from one of his daughter's school stockings. That didn't work. He soon designed a new type of conical filter that wouldn't clog, and figured out how to create flavor beads by making a tiny core and gradually adding material to it in a tumbler. Sucralose sweetener kept sugar levels - high in most flavored milks - at half a teaspoon, or 2 g, per straw. His first big break came when a U.S. marketer saw his patent and asked if he could make a trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Sip Enterprise | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...team concept also extends to the field. CforC, which is building a core staff of 20, can tap into a network of experts it has assembled, who number 30 so far and range from ex-officers and diplomats to former business executives and NGO operatives. For each project, it convenes small teams of staff and associates, mixing and matching skill sets to meet the client's needs. For example, Slim says, a team may have "a human-rights person, an environmentalist and a private-equity expert--now that's pretty wacky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extracting Good from Good Works | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...profitability. Cost inflation of close to 10% in 2008 means each bag of chips has cost Pepsi more to produce, even as belt-tightening consumers resist paying more for their food. Earlier this year, skyrocketing prices for corn, rice, wheat, vegetable oils and other key ingredients further added to core expenses, shrinking Pepsi's margins. Even packaging and delivery costs have risen. In response, CEO Indra Nooyi recently announced that the company would lay off 3,300 of its 185,000 workers and close six manufacturing plants, after failing to satisfy analysts' performance expectations. Coke has been less affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Pepsi's Down While Coke Is Up | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...Crimson also boasts a critical core of senior leadership, perhaps none more exciting than Andrew Flanagan. The 2006 EIWA champion at 165 lbs has battled injuries for the past two seasons and has the opportunity to make a triumphant return as the conference’s fifth-ranked grappler in his final season...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Eager To Battle in Season Opener | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...Committee on Undergraduate Education is presently engaged in a transition of great consequence. The fundamental structure of our core academic program is in flux. The very organization of our undergraduate education may be overhauled. Nothing, we imagine, could possibly be more demanding of the Committee’s time. We refer, of course, to their proposal to increase the time awarded students for travel between classes—assuming, of course, that someone bothers to create more courses that actually count toward General Education. “Harvard time”—the colloquial name given our unofficial...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Times, They Are a-Changin’ | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

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