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...Naslund missed only three games and the NHL chose not to fine Moore. Bertuzzi said there “absolutely” would be retaliation against Moore. “Games will come, and situations will present itself,” were his nauseatingly ominous words in the Rocky Mountain News...
...home. Deployed at the front line of Washington's war on terrorism, the U.S. commanders believe they have the enemy on the run even if bin Laden remains at large. "I don't think we're facing 'good' al-Qaeda," says Lieut. Colonel Mike Howard, who commands the 10th Mountain Division's two bases at Orgun-e and Shkin, referring to the battle-tested brigades that faced off against the U.S. forces when they first arrived. "I wouldn't have said that two years ago." Members of the 10th Mountain Division who have returned to Afghanistan for their second tour...
Bolger is chief buyer for Vermont's Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the Mexican mill's largest customer. For the 1,900 farmers who belong to the Huatusco cooperative, her opinion can mean food on the table--or not. If her standards are high, it is understandable. She pays twice the market price for 456,000 lbs. of their coffee. Why? Co-op president Josafat Hernandez has a simple explanation: "It allows us to survive." Coffee prices on the world market have fallen by two-thirds in the past five years to below what it costs to grow the beans here...
...sweet deal--in which Green Mountain guarantees the co-op at least $1.26 per lb. for some of its coffee even though the world price is around 60--also helps the $117 million company position itself as a socially responsible corporate citizen. On 42 of the 100 varieties of coffee that Green Mountain sells in supermarkets, gas stations and offices, it pastes an official seal that reads fair trade certified, proof that it paid a living wage to the growers. "The Taste of a Better World" is Green Mountain's marketing slogan, and its Fair Trade sales grew 92% last...
...small plots and big estates. The anonymous farmer earns a sliver of what Starbucks pays. But Fair Trade's 346 struggling farmer-owned co-ops might need hands-on training and investment to meet Starbucks' specs, an investment the company might find expensive. Indeed, to improve Huatusco Java, Green Mountain had to computerize quality control and bring Mexican farmers to Vermont for technical workshops. "With Fair Trade," Bolger acknowledges, "you have to walk the talk...