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French wine couldn't be considered a smart investment at the time. Sales had been shrinking for years, and by 2003 Americans were asking for freedom fries--hold the steak au poivre. But Joe devoted Gallo's huge resources to the challenge. First, the Modesto, Calif., company found a French partner--wine cooperative Sieur d'Arques, in the southern Languedoc area, the region that produces much of France's lower-priced vin ordinaire. Sieur would harvest the grapes and make the wine; Gallo would handle marketing and distribution. Then, after sending a crew of Gallo researchers and Grey Advertising executives...
...their needs in part by granting alternative certification to college graduates without formal teacher training. California granted emergency credentials to more than 4,000 instructors last year. Sunbelt schools are recruiting in northern states, where in many cases declining pupil populations have prevented a teacher shortage. The city of Modesto, Calif., this spring set up eleven recruiting centers in hotels from Massachusetts to Washington State. Georgia, although its shortage is still minor, has imported math and science teachers from West Germany. The Houston independent school district foraged all spring for 500 teachers as far north as Vancouver, only to discover...
DIED. ANDREW TOTI, 89, whose invention, the Mae West inflatable flotation vest (so dubbed by wearers who likened its shape to the chesty film star), saved many downed Allied pilots in World War II, among them George H.W. Bush, who later thanked Toti publicly; in Modesto, Calif...
...were admitted to the hospital back in January. Back home, Chilles' breakneck evacuation from Iraq seems unreal to him now. "I spent nine days in the hospital and traveled about 8,000 miles, just so I could sit with my dog and watch some TV," he e-mailed from Modesto, California, from where he shuttles to local military facilities to have his shrapnel wounds cleaned and dressed. "It isn't the way I thought I would be spending my 28th year of life. But I guess it's better than no life...
...account for the difference in media coverage between the case of Evalyn Hernandez and the case of Laci Peterson? Laci is a Caucasian, middle class housewife from Modesto; Evalyn Hernandez is a poor immigrant from the Philippines. While this might not indicate inherent racism on the part of the media, it does represent the media’s obsession with the bottom line. The unwarranted airtime given to the Laci Peterson case is simply a tactic to boost ratings by covering the story that has the broadest public appeal—and, sadly, a case involving a young wealthy white...