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...result of increased demand for cups, quarts, drinkables and everything from thick, Greek-style yogurt to water-buffalo-milk, goat's-milk and soy-milk varieties. Last year 3 out of 4 U.S. households spooned, drank and squeezed billions of dollars' worth of yogurt, an average of 5 lbs. per person--a paltry amount compared with the 40 lbs. the average Frenchman consumes...
...only because the number of racehorses is too. Fifty years ago, 10,000 foals were registered annually; today that figure is 34,000. TV contributes to the sense that injuries are on the rise, broadcasting the worst ones over and over. Besides, anytime you've got 1,200 lbs. of animal on the move, accidents will happen. "I've seen horses in the paddock injure themselves," Baffert says. "Barbaro just stepped wrong...
...gets to the finish line without a boat. A dragon boat weighs as much as 2,000 lbs. and can cost $6,000 to $14,000, depending on the design, craftsmanship and materials used. That doesn't include the recurring cost of trailering the boats to different competitions. Given such expenses, many teams don't even own their boats; they share them. The California Dragon Boat Association, for example, has a complicated practice schedule to allow more than 20 crews, including the City College of San Francisco and the Rainbow Koi, a team of gay and lesbian paddlers, to train...
...port in the country, after New York, and stores 27% of the nation's beans. "Right now those supplies are off the table," says Joe De Rupo of the National Coffee Association. Imports are being rerouted to Houston, Miami and Jacksonville, but no one knows whether the 211 million lbs. sitting in bags in New Orleans is salvageable or whether the roasting equipment, possibly submerged in contaminated water, can be saved. That's troublesome for small roasters and for giants like Procter & Gamble, which closed its Folgers plant in New Orleans just before the hurricane. Bananas destined for Gulfport, Miss...
Companies are less likely to recycle electronics than other waste, even though computers make dreadful trash. A desktop computer contains nearly 40 lbs. of plastic, lead, aluminum and iron, along with small amounts of arsenic, mercury, zinc and gold, and environmentalists are worried that the metals will leach into soil and water. But without national standards, some recyclers play fast and loose with the term. Some just shred waste. Others ship it overseas to China, Vietnam or India...