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...Bowled Over This lightweight Orikaso dinnerware travels flat to save space and folds into cups, bowls and plates[an error occurred while processing this directive] of various sizes. At a few dollars apiece, they're reusable (and thus environmentally friendly) and easy to clean. A bonus: they're as colorful as any ceramics and a lot less breakable in a backpack. Glowing Gadget When it's time to answer nature's call in the dark of night, mini-lights come in handy. Guyot Designs' Firefly, $22, converts a water bottle into a flashlight whose brightness can be adjusted...
...most nights of the year, this stretch of country road is only a flat place in the dark. But for a few nights in late summer 2003, it blazed in neon, smelled like smoked sausage, spun sugar and blue-ribbon hogs and rang with screams of people who had bought a ticket to be scared. They rode the Tilt-A-Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County...
...convoy waddled across the sand, the world she saw was flat, dull and yellow-brown, except where the water had turned the dust to reddish paste. The big trucks had been breaking down since they left the base in Kuwait, giving in to the grit that ate at the moving parts or bogging down in the mud and sand. Her convoy followed the route that had already been rutted or churned up by the columns ahead, and every time a five-ton truck hit a soft place and bottomed out, the 33 vehicles in Jessica's convoy dropped farther behind...
...Exchange commission, Plotkin and former Goldman Sachs analyst David Pajcin organized a “widespread and brazen international scheme of serial insider trading...resulting in at least $6.7 million of illicit gains.” The complaint says that Plotkin and Pajcin paid forklift operator Nickolaus Shuster a flat fee for him to relay the contents of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street” column. Shuster had access to advance copies of BusinessWeek because he worked at a Wisconsin plant where the weekly magazine is printed. The analysts helped Shuster get that job, acting...
...core as a company, you might make trade-offs. For example, organic ingredients cost us more money. We didn't raise our price. We wanted more consumers to have access to organic ingredients. We sucked it up, and our sales ended up taking off. Clif Bar's revenue was flat for about four years. We put organic ingredients in there, and the sales went up 35%. But we didn't know; we took a leap of faith. In fact, we did a focus group five years ago--said to our consumers, "Would you buy more Clif Bars if they...