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...inside Palestinian territory, the Jewish community of Migron sits, precariously, on the crown of a skull-white hill. On a winter day, the wind is so fierce it rocks the trailer homes, knocks over the kids' plastic tricycles in the muddy driveways and threatens to rip out the young fruit saplings planted by the 90 young settlers who call Migron home. A guard dog the size of a lion prowls the hilltop to scare off Arab prowlers--or terrorists. Migron is a hard and unforgiving place, especially these days...
...vessel marked by an icon. Click on one, and the computer calls up every scrap of data you can imagine--the ship's current route and historic movements, its cargo, entire crew roster and maintenance schedule. One ship, the program tells you, is dropping off 6,000 tons of fruit in Rotterdam, another is discharging steel products in Tanzania, while yet another is loading methanol in Malaysia. Port operator Hutchison Whampoa has an equally impressive system to help run its Hong Kong port. Incoming ships send data on their cargoes to Hutchison's operations center onshore. That information then gets...
...machine-tool firm Trumpf, certainly hopes so. The euro's current exchange rate of about $1.30 is painful "but not existential," she says, as the firm has used currency transactions to hedge against the risk of a weaker dollar. Trumpf's strong sales growth is in large part the fruit of geographical diversification by the company: it established a subsidiary in the U.S. way back in 1969 and opened an office in Japan eight years later. It's currently investing in facilities in the Czech Republic, Mexico and South Korea. "Our main competition used...
...crops viable with heated irrigation water and wind machines to circulate warm air. But those methods raise the temperature only a degree or two: citrus needs to stay at or above 28 degrees, and the temperature dipped down to 25 degrees for up to 10 hours a night. "The fruit just couldn't take it," says Joel Nelsen, president of California Citrus Mutual, a trade association...
...Over the weekend, the trade association's members voted to trigger a consumer protection program designed in response to the 1998 freeze, after which growers inadvertently sold damaged fruit. An orange often takes days to show decay on the outside, even though it will be bitter and dry on the inside. California growers are now holding harvested fruit in packing houses for four to five days and testing it to avoid another PR snafu. And while growers will make more money on the few oranges they are able to sell, they are also aware that they have an incentive...