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...late 2007 or 2008 and for which a shovel will not touch the earth until fall. "It's a zoo," says Hiatt. "Buildable land here is running out. We have only one place to go, and that's up." By March 1, the tiniest of the hypothetical condos had risen in price...
Unilever, with about a 17% share of the global ice cream market, is facing increasing competition from Nestlé, whose share has risen from 10% to 11% since 2002. Nestlé's Dreyers brand, acquired the next year, beat Unilever to the market with a light version made using a "slow churned" technique; Dreyers' U.S. sales of light ice cream have doubled since the switchover to the new process early in 2004. "We can't make it fast enough," says Nestlé spokesman Robin Tickle. Unilever is playing up its own "double churned" technology, which, like Nestlé's, blends ingredients slowly...
This is good news for Levitt, since the title of his new book, “Freakonomics,†is—quite frankly—just awful. However, like Loser, who has risen through the ranks of the New York City Police Department (his colleagues now call him “Louâ€) “Freakonomics†overcomes its name...
...border. There, kids are taught to choose vegetables and fresh foods over fried and processed ones. From age 3, students work with nutritionists to learn food science and cooking, and the lessons are kept up in English and math classes. As a result, childhood obesity in the town has risen just 1% in the past 10 years. "The trick is never to tell the children no," says program director Agnès Lommez. "Kids can and should eat chips, just not every day." --By Jeninne Lee-St. John. Reported by Jonathan Shenfield
...swept to national power in 1998, promising economic reforms without social hardship. But unemployment has risen dramatically, and the government has cut unemployment benefits, even as it cut taxes for corporations. That has angered unions and spd rank and file, who've vented their frustrations in a string of recent state elections. The spd lost in Saxony-Anhalt in 2002 and in Lower Saxony - Schröder's home state - in 2003. In April, it was forced into a grand coalition with the cdu in Schleswig-Holstein. The state polls are key to Germany's federal system because the states...