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DIED. JOHN WALTON, 58, entrepreneurial billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; after the tiny, home-built plane he was piloting crashed in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Reluctant to work for the family business, the decorated Vietnam vet launched successful ventures in sailboat building and crop dusting and was a pivotal board member of the Waltons' philanthropic foundation...
...course, Southern rap didn't just crop up overnight. America got a taste of what the down-home base could deliver in 1989, when Miami's Luther Campbell and his 2 Live Crew rampaged with the hit Me So Horny. But that era's strip-club-and-gospel sensibility was a little too jarring for mainstream tastes, and Campbell ended up retreating to Florida. That didn't daunt innovators like Speech of Arrested Development, Missy Elliott and the Neptunes--all from the South...
...evidence is mixed. Athens' experience suggests that the supposed financial and economic benefits of Olympics can easily disappear. Costs can exceed budgets, job creation can fall short of forecasts, tourists and spectators can fail to materialize, and - especially in the world after Sept. 11, 2001 - unexpected expenses can crop up. Athens spent about $1.5 billion on security, 12 times its original estimate. Montreal turned a significant profit on operations alone from its hosting of the 1976 games. But don't try and convince Québécois smokers of that. Capital and infrastructure expenditures - for venues such...
...late Gideon Blumenfeld, an Israeli horticulturist and scientist, is often referred to as the godfather of New Zealand's olive-oil industry. Lured to New Zealand by his Kiwi wife, Triska, he settled in the Wairau Valley after researching the climate and soil, and planted his first commercial crop in 1986. Today, the Blumenfeld brand is New Zealand's biggest olive-oil producer. Order its award-winning oils at blumenfeld.co.nz...
...time the government realized the extent of the crop failure, Brazil had only small reserves of the beans on hand. Some growers are now hoarding their supplies in hopes of higher prices, further exacerbating the shortage. Says Farmer Ribeiro: "I'm not selling for any price at the moment. For us, coffee is like gold...