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...hectare) estate on the edge of town seven years ago. She later spent five months of house arrest there, and her company recently launched a furniture line named Katonah. But when the company moved to trademark the name Katonah for the furniture and a long list of other household goods last year, residents fought back. A February meeting--which featured Martha-made cookies--didn't prompt a withdrawal of the application, so the Katonah Village Improvement Society (KVIS) and two businesses filed petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "To the people of Katonah," said KVIS president Lydia Landesberg...
Percentage of Americans age 50 or older with a household income of at least $75,000 who say they believe in heaven...
...While these superficial efforts by stars to offset their consumption are admirable, they are not a lasting solution. The average American household would have to buy $276,000 a year in carbon credits to counteract their carbon emissions, a price tag few Americans would be able to afford. Moreover, even if every American household could afford carbon credits, the result would be that Third World countries would bear the burden of our excessive lifestyles. While carbon credits are a viable short-term option for industry and an important step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the corporate sector, they...
...media's sporadic reports from farm country have tended to focus on floods, droughts and other disasters. But the farm crisis is as over as Barbara Mandrell. Farm incomes are at an all-time high. The median farmer enjoys five times the net worth of the median nonfarmer household. Crop prices have soared--thanks largely to the Federal Government's promotion of corn ethanol over more efficient renewable energies--and yet subsidies have as well...
...they are household names, and everyone's got their view of them," says Max Clifford, one of Britain's best-known public relations gurus. But, as City University journalism professor Adrian Monck adds, "they're not celebrities in the conventional sense," since Portuguese authorities - rightly or wrongly - still suspect they might know more about their daughter's disappearance than they have...