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Sorell's pigs aren't the only things that are growing. Heritage Foods USA, the largest mail-order firm in the business, was buying five 200-lb. hogs a month from Lazy S but is ratcheting up to 25 a month to meet demand. Besides Red Wattles, named for their ruddy hair and folds of neck skin, the company's biannual "almanac" offers 70 products, from Tunis lamb to Bourbon Red turkeys. "Dozens of delicious American treasures with a long history are on the brink of extinction," says Patrick Martins, co-founder of the company. "We must eat them...
...seem to have little in common with Western traditional notions of what a marriage should be: a photogenic celebration of love between soul mates, suitable for framing. These brokered arrangements are cross-border business transactions between a rich place and a poor country, set up to meet a consumer demand: man wants a wife; woman wants a better life. But ultimately the commodity being traded is the desire to find happiness with another, a wish embodied in every wedding, even ones with plastic champagne glasses and fake flowers. Chang exposes the tinsel promises of the marriage industry, but he leaves...
...thousands so that builders can get at the valuable ground beneath. "There's a certain sadness about what's happening to those great little cottages," Brit Fennell, a Coldwell Banker broker, says of Levan's old neighborhood, known as Brentwood Flats. "But the mansionization trend is consumer demand at work...
...says, it is based on fundamentals that include tight housing supply--especially in places where it is tough or expensive to build, like New York City and San Francisco--such population factors as immigration, foreign buyers (snapping up properties cheap because of a weak dollar) and baby boomers' demand for second homes. "It's the demographics, stupid," he says...
Along with asking investors to demand that the fund’s management agreement with Nomura be revoked, Harvard is seeking their support for its proposal that the fund be liquidated by its board of directors and the value of its assets returned to shareholders...