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...have started populating their grasslands with chickens instead of hundreds of goats or sheep. More than 10,000 free-range chickens have fed on the grasslands' insects and plants, and then fertilized the land, restoring plant life and creating organic meat and eggs that can be sold at a premium. "Rich people in cities consume these products, and the money will come back to the people in Inner Mongolia, who can use the profit to protect their land," says Jiang. "In this way, the ecology can benefit from the economy...
What does Wall Street see in the company? The same thing that transformed Starbucks and Cold Stone Creamery from local favorites into global brands--a knack for taking an ordinary but well-liked food and tarting it up into a premium product. Dale and Thomas sells more than 100 popcorn flavors, from Chocolate Chunk N' Caramel to Sweet Georgia Pecan, and each bowl can by customized with "pop-ins"--sweets like fudge or jelly beans that customers can add to their popcorn. A regular- size bag with the works costs about $6. "Popcorn is a commodity," Struhl says. "We made...
...building with multiple floors of small nooks, all overflowing with used books and distressed leather armchairs. Its Web site a is no-nonsense list of new stock and pictures of the store locations. Bookstores like Commonwealth rely on a small, hard-core demographic that is willing to pay a premium for the experience of book buying in spite of the convenience of Amazon.com or large chains. This reliance on consumer loyalty creates a unique relationship between small bookstores and their patrons. Most booksellers allow their shoppers liberties that other industries don’t. Few grocery stores allow...
...Beer has been brewed in this county capital of 95,000 since the middle ages, and the Budejovicky Budvar brewery was founded in 1895. The company was nationalized after World War II, but has kept producing a premium brew from first-rate water, malt and hops that to this day matures for three months in white lagering tanks in the brewery's chilly cellars. "It is a symbol of Budejovice," says 20-year-old resident Johana Stejskalova when asked what Budvar means...
...right now,” Hazlett said. Yesterday’s high winds made the already long Springdale Golf Club play even longer than it had on Saturday. The wind also made the course’s fairways play narrower, which, combined with the hard, fast greens, put a premium on the precision of longer shots. The Crimson did, however, deal well with the difficult 10th hole—a dogleg-right with tall trees constricting the fairway 70 yards from a severely undulating green—that plagued it in years past. Of Harvard’s five golfers...