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...beans, saying the names are generic, but it did grant Yirgacheffe a trademark in August. Do governments frequently trademark native products? It's not uncommon, but they more frequently use geographic certification to brand everything from orange juice to cheeses. Jamaica has achieved great success with its Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, which is registered with a certification mark in the U.S. Starbucks says it supports a certification program for Ethiopian coffees, but not trademarks...
...reading tastes in elementary school weren’t that sophisticated. I mean, I could’ve knocked off some Hemingway in fourth grade, but I chose not to. But nor did I incline toward the trashy Goosebumps or Mystic Mountain High (that’s made up, but you know the type) families. So for a while, I tracked the adventures of Encyclopedia Brown, the finest sleuth this side of the Atlantic. A stretch with that endless series about the Boxcar Children. Then I turned my attention to the Redwall saga, those enchanting tales of mice slaying snakes...
...Estimated height of Mt. Everest, the world's tallest mountain 3.7 m Estimated distance Everest has shrunk since 1975, according to Chinese geologists who said last week that the Himalayas have "peaked" and will perhaps grow smaller due to the effects of gravity on Asia's continental crust...
Americans have never had problems shelling out cash, but as a nation of 300 million and counting, we are buying more than ever before. Every day U.S. consumers purchase 154,000 pounds of Starbucks coffee, 125,000 Barbie dolls and about 29 million cans of Mountain...
...fellow New England composer Charles Ives. The mood becomes increasingly raucous and festive later on as the orchestra imitates marching bands through familiar-sounding (yet completely original) tunes that Adams has concocted. The remaining two movements, “The Lake” and “The Mountain,” are more conventional musical paintings of landscape. The music here is generic and forgettable. In fact, in “The Mountain,” with its repetitive ostinatos and zigzagging string lines occasionally punctuated with brass and bells, sounds awfully like a recycling of Adams?...