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Made by fermenting milk with grain from the kefir bushes that grow in the Middle East and southern Balkans, the drink until recently was available in the U.S. only in selected East and West Coast stores. Now Lifeway distributes 5,000 quarts of kefir a day in 20 states. Last month the company went public, raising $600,000 as part of a plan to triple production. But Lifeway's founders have no thoughts of challenging yogurt giants Dannon and Yoplait. Says Smolyansky: "That's the great thing about America. There's always room for a little guy with a good...
...even the tiniest and most speculative risks. Whether they are describing the fear contained in the title, or kissing or any of the other rumors about how one catches the disease, they parlay unproven and miniscule possiblities into "some risk". Such a loose phrase could all too easily grow in the retelling...
...sense is it is a problem people are being very quickly made aware of because the problem is growing more serious," Verdier added. "As awareness grows, people's willingness to pay private premiums and higher Medicare taxes will grow...
Peterson's prescription demands that the nation magnanimously take on the burden of Reagan's extravagance: that all domestic spending--including entitlement programs--be cut, and that defense spending be "restrained" or allowed to grow only modestly. Peterson would assent to a tax increase only as a last resort, and then only "in ways that discourage consumption and encourage investment...
...least two dozen people were arrested during the first week, but the number is likely to grow. A test program at the San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests since it began in December 1986. The national program will adopt the San Diego approach, in which suspects are charged with both illegal importation of drugs, a felony, and simple possession, a misdemeanor. Most are then offered a deal: if they plead guilty to the misdemeanor, the Government will drop the felony count and the magistrate will grant deferred prosecution, which means that...