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...invest in this growth industry? The conservative plays are through big retailers and drug companies. Wal-Mart and Walgreens, for example, sell a lot of natural products. Among drug companies, American Home Products, Warner Lambert and Bayer AG have been aggressive. But the overall sales of these large companies overwhelm those of their natural products, so the impact is minimal. Take Wal-Mart: it sold about $500 million of natural products last year, but that pales next to total sales of $105 billion...
...before Johnson & Johnson can sell the stuff to Americans, it must first resolve a dispute with the FDA. The agency claims authority to vet all new ingredients in food, including the key ingredient in Benecol: sitostanol, derived from pine trees. The substance appears to help reduce the body's absorption of dietary cholesterol into the blood. But the FDA says Benecol's makers cannot advertise specific health benefits without proving them through the agency's rigorous testing process--one that many companies consider unnecessarily bureaucratic and expensive. That's why Johnson & Johnson designates Benecol as a nutritional supplement. Such products...
Whether they sell sugar from their holdings in the Everglades or from their mill in the Caribbean, the Fanjuls are guaranteed a U.S. price that is more than double anywhere else in the world. As might be expected, having it both ways has propelled the Fanjuls into the ranks of the richest Americans. Their wealth is counted in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
...building your own website--all for under $1,000. Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that scan, fax, print and copy, like the Xerox Document WorkCenter 450CP and Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 3100 seen on these pages, stuff these common office duties into compact boxes that easily fit on a shelf and sell for less than $500. And traditional monitors nowadays are coming down in price; they're getting slimmer...
...show in Las Vegas, Cyrix is unveiling a prototype of its 2.7-lb. WebPAD with a 10.4-in. color screen and a 200-MHz processor. Wireless technology requires a "base station" or computer to be nearby, and the keyboard is optional, but the chipmaker hopes to entice vendors to sell the device for about $500 by next summer...