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...main runways and took off into the bright sky late Sunday morning. First, there were only five people on board, while more than 100 watched intently from a nearby hangar. Second, the plane was the first commercial jet ever to fly on biofuel, a fuel produced from plant matter instead of petroleum or other fossil fuels. "This is the first stage on a journey towards renewable fuel," Virgin founder Richard Branson told reporters in the hangar shortly before takeoff, his voice drowned out every now and then by the roar of overhead planes. "It's the equivalent of those exciting...
...million lbs. POULTRY The country's second largest producer, Pilgrim's Pride, recalled chicken and turkey in 2002 after detecting listeria at its plant...
...needs to address its underperforming share price: the stock has slid 20% on the Amsterdam bourse since July. Citigroup analysts are bullish, however, calling Philips "a growth company masquerading as a restructuring story." Whatever happens, Philips has faced tougher times. Just a short drive across town from the Eindhoven plant, you can visit the company's first factory, where beginning in 1891 it manufactured incandescent lightbulbs for ships and hotels. Back then, the company needed to churn out 500 each day to turn a profit. At the start, it could manage only 400. In case Van Deursen needs any encouragement...
...Thursday was a different matter. In the wake of a scandalous New York Times story suggesting a romantic fling with a lobbyist, McCain arrived at a Ford Focus car assembly plant with a decidedly tense grin plastered across his face. His campaign staff promptly separated anyone with a pen or a tape recorder from the candidate. "The McCain campaign decided who they wanted on the tour, and it's only photographers," a nice lady from Ford announced after a reporter spotted the candidate behind a car chassis and tried to approach...
Later, as his tour of the Ford plant 50 miles north was winding down, McCain was finally forced to wander over to the print reporters-not to talk, just to look at more cars. He was trailed by a mob of photographers and Cindy, smiling in a black turtleneck, her hair tightly wound. "Very interesting," he said, just before someone showed him the Escape Hybrid. "This is the future obviously." Another Ford executive put him in the driver's seat of a Focus, which could play an iPod on voice command. "Play Abba," said McCain. But the iPod...