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...sunk cost for fragrance companies; they get paid only when a manufacturer buys the finished product as an ingredient. So IFF makes money on volume. A sodamaker, for example, would buy vats of flavoring for every batch of a popular drink. But unlike other raw ingredients, like corn syrup or carbonated water, flavors are unique. When a flavor or fragrance hits big, IFF scores a guaranteed revenue stream...
...adage “If you build it, they will come” worked pretty well for Kevin Costner. Cut down some corn, lay down some sod and BAM! You’ve got a sweet party in your backyard. But when it comes to Harvard Yard, the story is a bit different.This past school year, Harvard embarked on a number of projects geared towards expanding social space, including undertakings as diverse as the $4.5 million Queen’s Head pub and the Harvard College Women’s Center. But designing a social space that caters...
Percentage of the U.S. corn crop used for ethanol production in 2006. Corn, a key crop for food aid, will increasingly be used to make ethanol, thus further reducing the amount of food shipped...
...self-interest above the colony's needs. He made an enemy or two along the way. As the military man who understood the terrain and was the least likely to be missed if he didn't return, Smith was put in charge of seeking local tribes willing to swap corn, fish and game for English copper and glass beads. When one hard-pressed tribe balked at the corn-for-copper trade, Smith ordered his men to rake the village with shot and put the odd lodge to the torch. Terrified natives opened their granary to the armed trespassers, knowing that...
...Jamestown for the next four years. The English, though, weren't finished with her. In the spring of 1613, when Pocahontas was nearing 18, she was kidnapped by a colonist-sailor. Her father paid most of the ransom--a gaggle of English prisoners, guns and a boatload of corn--but the white men kept the girl just upriver from Jamestown. There the planter John Rolfe, a prosperous widower, soon found himself battling an attraction he deemed alternately sinful and sublime. In what must be the most peculiar betrothal request in American history, Rolfe wrote to Virginia Governor Thomas Dale, first...