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...Tahoe forest--probably, rangers say, because it is early in the season. If they had already matured, the 3,500 plants he was tending would have yielded some $8 million worth of pot--an investment worth protecting. In the fall, when scores of Mexican workers arrive to harvest and process the pot, shoot-outs occur between law-enforcement agents and camouflage-clad growers toting AK-47s. Sometimes the pot pirates mistake innocent tourists for thieves or cops. Last year kayakers on the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest were held at gunpoint by traffickers, as were a hiker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busted! | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...rghuber's connections to spread Heineken around Germany. A year later, Interbrew bought Beck's - the only German beer to have leveraged Germany's brewing reputation to its own global advantage. The price was a staggering j1.7 billion. Again, that deal was done primarily to harvest the Beck's brand for use outside Germany, but it also gave Interbrew a platform from which to sell its other premium labels, such as Stella Artois, within the country. If Germans begin quaffing imported beers in any substantial numbers, it will increase the pressure on domestic brewers to grow or sell. In July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Beer Goes Flat | 8/3/2003 | See Source »

...courtesy of a television commercial sponsored by Kellogg’s Company, that Battle Creek is where “apple is considered a real word.” The source of this “fact” and her amusement was an advertisement for the new Fruit Harvest cereal that threw my little hometown back onto...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: Cereal (City) Cravings | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

...returned home for the summer, to the comfort of everything I know, but the feeling that nothing is really the same. Maybe that’s why I love the Fruit Harvest commercials so much. In these ads, you see vast fields or orchards, where cereal grows from small box sprouts to full sized boxes of cereal...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: Cereal (City) Cravings | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

...pans the landscape, a mountain appears. We have lots of fields and trees in Michigan, but we most certainly do not have any mountains. The commercials were actually shot in New Zealand in January—I guess winter in Michigan would not yield the appropriate “harvest.” Still, it’s a shame that our own scenery couldn’t be recognized...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: Cereal (City) Cravings | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

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