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...Still, some see these worries as tilting at windmills. "I hope I'm wrong," says Roach. He's not alone. AGRICULTURE Let them eat beef It seems like good news, unless you're a cow: 19 months after the foot-and-mouth crisis stopped exports from Britain, the first shipment of beef left Wales, bound for the gourmet market in Holland. Back in 1995 British beef was big business, with 274,000 tons, worth $810 million, shipped around the world. Then BSE, or "mad cow" disease, laid waste to the industry. The French, who imported 100,000 tons annually, banned...
...most heavily represented - at least by business if not by Gov. Jeb Bush, who had publicly chastised Ventura for attending the event. "This trip has been an emotional roller coaster for me," said Carlos de Quesada, 34, the son of Cuban exiles who represents a Tampa livestock shipment firm, Cuba-Florida Cattlemen, and who was himself making his first visit to Cuba. "But I and my Cuban-American friends back home, we all think this is a good thing...
...boots are suddenly hotter than Death Valley in August. Local magazine Fashion & Beauty recently ran a full page story flogging the new style, and retailers are finding it difficult to keep their shelves stocked. Local store i.t, which started carrying Western-style boots in July, sold out its first shipment of over 1,000 pairs in just two weeks. Zarina Kitchell, divisional merchandise manager of Joyce Boutique, which has outlets in China and Taiwan as well as Hong Kong, says the popularity of the boots reflects a yearning to stand out from the herd: 'Customers look for something...
...recently received its first direct oil shipment from Russia, thanks in part to Khodorkovsky, CEO of Yukos, the nation's second largest oil company. Yukos has operated for years in Europe but wants to expand its reach. At 39, Khodorkovsky has amassed a $7 billion fortune and a reputation as one of the robber barons of Russia's transition to capitalism. But he's working to clean up that image, in part by having Yukos pay dividends to shareholders and disclose more of its finances. Yukos plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange this fall...
...size blow-up dolls hang nearby, blonds, brunettes and redheads with crimson mouths shaped in a permanent 'O,' as if surprised to find themselves rolling off the production line of a dingy Chinese factory. The sheer variety of sex toys, both anatomically correct and physiologically implausible, being readied for shipment from Wenzhou Loves Health Products is disturbing. But as company president Wu Wei says, "Everyone has their own taste." Which, hopefully, explains the inflatable cow?a black-spotted Holstein?tucked in the corner. "The cow is ordered by European companies," Wu says, "maybe because Westerners treat animals more equally...