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...vintners and wine sellers. It's home to about 30 wineries, producing more than 20 European varietals, mostly Merlot, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc. Compared with Napa Valley, Calif., the East End is a blip in terms of wine production--500,000 cases annually, a small fraction of California's 155 million cases, most of it from Northern California. But for a summertime excursion, Long Island offers visitors fine wines and a unique blend of East Coast charm with scenery reminiscent of southern France. "Very recently people have woken up to the fact that this...
...spammers flood the Internet with ads nobody wants to read? Because some people do read them, and a tiny fraction actually respond--which in the world of direct marketing is like money in the e-bank. Take former spammer Scott Hirsch of Boca Raton, Fla., who sold his e-mail marketing business last year for $135 million and retired at the age of 37. Florida is home to more spammers than any other state, and Hirsch--who started his first bulk e-mail list way back in 1996--likes to take credit for helping make Boca Raton "the spam capital...
...surprised that no one has considered outsourcing CEOs. If India can market its companies and expertise to the U.S. and take jobs away, surely it can provide CEOs to manage American companies at a fraction of the cost of existing executive salaries, perks and golden parachutes. How can company executives think that we shareholders and employees are clueless about the difference between top executives' compensation and that of the other employees? JOYE GROFF Raleigh...
...nice guy. In a line of work that consistently tries one’s patience and one’s good mood, Veneziano retains both on a regular basis. He quietly continues to be the best at what he does, even if he’ll never garner a fraction of the attention Harvard’s athletes receive from...
...people who teach now do so out of sheer commitment,” Cardozo said. “The remunerations are a very small fraction of what they would make in clinical practice...