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...False) Avocado sales do shoot up, but not that much. This year 9% of the annual crop is expected to be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday...
...contrast, "India is further along in building a productive business environment," Porter said. "It has talented high-end people with deep expertise in IT, software, pharmaceuticals. It has the opportunity to go much further." And as the Indian parties all over Davos this year proved, it already has a crop of companies - Infosys, Jet Airways and Mittal Steel - whose leaders are trying to become the next masters of the universe. Indeed, while Davos was in full swing on Friday, Mittal Steel made an audacious j18.6 billion bid for Europe's steel champion, Luxembourg-based Arcelor. Naturally, such predictions depend...
None of sugar's major producers have gone unscathed. Brazil, the world's largest exporter, is diverting more of its drought-shortened crop to the production of ethanol, a cheaper alternative to imported oil. In Thailand, the world's No. 2 exporter, supermarkets have begun rationing supplies. Drought in 2004, the worst in 40 years, reduced output by more than 2 million tons...
...facts never stick. In a matter of minutes, they are regurgitated from my brain into that dark abyss of intellectual nothingness. I never used to have intellectual bulimia. I—like my other 1,600 classmates—was the cream of the high school crop, one of the nine percent of 22,000 applicants selected by Harvard last year. I never used to stare at myself in the mirror and see a slacker. I studied hard, I studied well, and I studied early. Tom Cruise would say that I just don’t have the will power...
...million Number of seeds, representing all of the world's known crop varieties, to be safeguarded in a "doomsday vault" on a remote Arctic island 75% Estimated proportion of crop species believed to have been lost since...