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...might be true that a certain amount of those admitted come to Harvard because it's Harvard--and I do not wholly discount myself from this group...
Cuba's research efforts have been highly pragmatic, aimed at solving real-life problems--of which Cuba has more than its share. Cuban agriculture nearly collapsed following the breakup of the Soviet Union, which for years subsidized Cuba with discount petroleum and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. So scientists at CIGB concentrated on improving the food supply. Among other things, they equipped sugarcane and potatoes with bacterial genes that confer pest resistance and added an extra growth-hormone gene to tilapia, creating a faster-growing variant of that tasty freshwater fish...
...cereal makers insist that their products are a bargain, particularly with discount coupons. Even without them, the industry estimates that the average cost of a bowl of cereal, including milk, is about 35'. Yet shoppers who watch their families gobble up a $5 box of cereal in a couple of sittings still consider the cost to be considerable. Ann Rhodes, a mother with three children at home in Waterford Township, Michigan, says of her family, which can shred seven boxes of cereal weekly, "The 14-year-old will eat a whole box if you let him, and the 11-year...
...expand revenues. When that happens, says Michael Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research Corp. in Golden, Colorado, the skies may grow turbulent again. "If the majors find their core market being taken [by the upstarts]," he says, "they will turn on them." Already Northwest and American have started to discount. Rising fuel prices could turn summer into a season of melting profits...
...while Payless ShoeSource closes or relocates some 10% of its 4,500 discount stores, Gucci can't keep enough of its $295 high-heel pumps in stock. Nor has business slowed at Geary's Beverly Hills in that California city, where tableware goes for $1,000 a setting. Geary's wrapped up its best fall/Christmas season ever last year. Crows president Bruce Meyer: "Our customers want something to separate them from the crowd...