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...exporters may be forced to find ways around the blocked shipping channels in the lower Mississippi--a critical conduit for agricultural products. The U.S. exports about $600 billion in cargo through ports that were hit by the hurricane, and some 2,000-ton barges are literally stuck in the mud, says Larry Daily, president of Alter Barge Lines. "It's like you've clogged the pipeline for a week." Archer Daniels Midland, a major grain exporter, operates four grain terminals in Louisiana. Several hundred of its barges are stranded in the lower Mississippi, some grounded and waiting to off-load...
Those most optimistic about the future tend to be people too young to remember Soviet times and unburdened by any ideological aversion to capitalism. Valentina Zagrebelnaya, 25, is part of that generation. She treads carefully as she crosses Lenin Street so as not to get mud on her spike-heeled ankle boots. She runs the Kaluga branch of KMB bank, which specializes in giving small loans to entrepreneurs. She was 21 when she opened the bank branch, a graduate fresh from the local arts college, with no financial experience. No matter. Although there were few takers in the first couple...
...talked about environmentally friendly products 20 years ago, most people would have envisaged a hand-stitched hemp-fiber bag or mud-colored recycled stationery. But these days, the state of the planet is a broader concern, and the line between green goods and those of the regular kind is blurring. Here are four products that will make you look chic while feeling righteous...
...teach you the best way to eat a boiled crawfish (or crayfish, as they're known outside Louisiana). And there'll be plenty of that going on at the annual Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival (bbcrawfest.com), held from May 5-7. Nicknamed "mudbugs" because of their natural habitat in the mud of the southern state's bayou or creeks, crawfish were once scorned as food for the poor. Today, however, they've been proudly adopted as a Cajun delicacy. Visitors to the festival in the city of Breaux Bridge will have a chance to sample a slew of popular Southern dishes...
...straight for the spa, where treatments range from the one-hour Walu BalBal facial, which uses wattle seeds and lillypilly berries, to the resort's signature indulgence, the decadent two-hour Walbul-Walbul, or Butterfly, treatment, which involves a full-body exfoliation with desert salts and plenty of warm mud...