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Ironically, the company Atkins himself founded to commercialize his dietary theories nearly missed the low-carb bonanza. Atkins Nutritionals, based in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., was selling mostly diet books and vitamins until 2000, when the success of the Carbolite candy persuaded executives to create more prepackaged foods. The company hired marketing veteran Paul Wolff as CEO, and since then it has launched nearly 100 low-carb products, from sliced bread to soy-based snack chips to a superpremium ice cream sold under Atkins' Endulge brand. Wolff says the "aggressive" pace of product rollouts will continue. "We're out to change...
...fields. Farther up I-15, near Salt Lake City, neighboring Nature's Herbs is in the midst of its third expansion in four years--this one aimed at tripling production to 2 million capsules an hour. That kind of growth enabled Nature's Herbs, a unit of Twinlab of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to boost its sales 50% last year...
...stuck belly to belly with a stranger. At least you're with the nicest commuters." He does not mean nicer than Chicago commuters, or even Connecticut commuters. He is a branch-line chauvinist, and he means nicer than the commuters on the Oyster Bay line or the Ronkonkoma line...
...Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, another Catholic church named for St. Joseph learned that one of its parishioners, lately forced into bankruptcy, was about to lose his house. Remembering a device used during the Depression, Father John Carew, 70, announced formation of a Save-a-Home Fund. When he made his appeal, Carew said last week, churchgoers "tore the place down with their clapping." The collection produced $5,000-enough to stave off the foreclosure and to help others that the recession threatens to turn out of house and home...
...Lake Ronkonkoma...