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...sales by volume of premium tequila jumped by a total of over 50% in 2003 and 2004 - a trend some attribute to increased acceptance of, and appreciation for, Hispanic and Mexican cultures among Stateside consumers. For the uninitiated, proper tequila is the liquor of the blue agave plant, which, contrary to popular belief, is not a cactus but a lily (and strictly speaking, spirits made from other kinds of agave are not tequila at all, but mezcal). Much like whiskey or wine, tequila has its own system of classifications. Tequila that has been aged for two months is known...
...latest surge in gas prices. "We have some dealers we haven't been able to contact," says Ford spokesman George Pipas, who estimates that 40 Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were affected by the storm. Katrina forced Nissan to close its assembly plant in Canton, Miss., 211 miles north of New Orleans. When the plant reopened, employees reported they were having a hard time finding enough gas to make the commute, says Nissan spokesman Fred Standish. The only nugget of good news: Katrina doesn't appear to have disrupted supplies of critical material like...
Consumers can expect to pay more for basics such as coffee, bananas and paint (made at idled chemical-processing plants in the Gulf). New Orleans is the second largest coffee port in the country, after New York, and stores 27% of the nation's beans. "Right now those supplies are off the table," says Joe De Rupo of the National Coffee Association. Imports are being rerouted to Houston, Miami and Jacksonville, but no one knows whether the 211 million lbs. sitting in bags in New Orleans is salvageable or whether the roasting equipment, possibly submerged in contaminated water...
Aside from its idiosyncratic risks, Vermont Yankee also shares the risks posed by nuclear power plants in general. Built in the early ’70s, the plant seems ripe for a meltdown, yet like so many other plants nationwide, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has allowed it to increase its output by 20 percent. The plant should have expired years ago, but instead it was purchased and upgraded by Entergy, a company based out of conveniently distant Louisiana...
...need only look to The Great Falls Tribune, where in past months editors have thrice given front-page coverage to Molly, the cow who escaped a packing plant, went on a many-hour rampage through town, and eventually eluded her fate by winning enough hearts to buy her amnesty in a pasture in my hometown’s outskirts. The Molly mayhem subsided, but then there was the “problem badger” who took up residence in the lower South side, a saga which produced such headlines as “Woman Can?...