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...called A2R Environmental Funds, Forgach raises money from institutions like the Swiss government and the World Bank Group and invests mainly in sustainable agriculture and food processing in Latin America, including the Amazon. If you've bought organic raspberries under General Mills' Cascadian Farm label or ordered hearts of palm in a European restaurant during the past year, you've probably done business with...
Forgach's signature deal--the result of one of his jungle-scouting expeditions--was the 1999 purchase of a $1.5 million majority stake in Muana Alimentos, located on the remote Amazon island of Marajo. Muana cultivates acaizeiro palms and packages and sells the palms' hearts (prized for gourmet salads) and their purple acai fruit (used in Howler's organic Rainforest Sorbet). In an industry in which exploitation of the environment and workers is the norm, Muana stood out by refusing to employ children. It paid its workers and suppliers at least 28% above the $78-a-month minimum wage...
DIED. DONALD J. CRAM, 82, UCLA professor and researcher who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for synthesizing molecules that mimicked the way enzymes work in the body, and were later used in sensors and electrodes; of cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif...
...LIKE MIKE You've eaten at his steakhouse. You've sprayed on his cologne. Now you can organize your data the Michael Jordan way. Palm Computing has announced a Michael Jordan edition of its m100 and m500 handheld computers, each of which is emblazoned with the legendary hoopster's name and comes with special software, including a Jordan trivia game and a basketball-scoring program...
Armando Kraenzlin personally owns a paradise isle. An isolated coral haven of white sand and palms set in the azure Philippine Sea, it is the picture of Pacific perfection. But Kraenzlin doesn't get to go much. As head of the Four Seasons resort in the Maldives, he spends his days trying to give to thousands of others an experience that, give or take a man Friday, should strictly be solitary. "We all fantasize about a desert island, like Robinson Crusoe, with nothing on it but a palm tree," he says. "That's paradise." It's a measure...