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Once outside of the city, Esther stays out of the way by living on a farm. Trouble comes when the local Nazi Kommandant spies her. Suspecting she is a Jew, instead of turning her in, he forces her to become his mistress. Soon this horror gives way to another as the Nazis retreat from the advancing Russian troops. The Russian's vodka-fueled barbarism sends Esther fleeing into a snowstorm, pulling Miriam behind in an open suitcase. This intense sequence becomes the book's dramatic and thematic climax. While some may see the hand of a benevolent God in sending...
...first yogurt in the U.S. to use probiotics via a trademarked culture, Bifidus Regularis, which aids digestion after two weeks of regular use, according to studies conducted by Dannon. (Oh, Dannon vs. Danone? The yogurt brand was Americanized when it arrived here.) On the organic side, Stonyfield Farm, in which Groupe Danone holds a majority stake, has run out of cows before it has run out of customers. Stonyfield is the third largest player in the category, with 90% of the $155 million organics segment and 6% of overall yogurt sales, but it has been forced to scramble to find...
That includes Gary Hirshberg, the "C-E-Yo" of Stonyfield Farm, based in Londonderry, N.H., whose seven-cow farm has since 1983 become a company with $211 million in sales. Stonyfield Farm has tripled sales in five years, helped no doubt by Groupe Danone's distribution muscle. The French company completed its purchase of 85% of the firm...
Organic-yogurt sales are limited only by the growth in organic-milk production, which is climbing 20% to 30% annually. "It's the 10,000-lb. cow in my life," says Hirshberg. To find enough organic milk, Stonyfield Farm subsidizes farmers as they convert to organic production and offers price guarantees on the milk it buys. "Conventional-milk pricing has fallen to levels not seen since the 1970s," says Hirshberg. "It's a disastrous situation for farmers with a cost structure based on 2006 energy costs." The only silver lining, he says, is that it has helped some dairy farmers...
...market wants a faster, earlier-maturing horse," says Dan Rosenberg, president of Three Chimneys horse-breeding farm in Midway, Ky., "but there is an incompatibility between speed and durability." Not everyone in the industry agrees, but injuries like Barbaro's raise the question anew every time they occur...