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...Scrooge. It pays on average $1.20 per lb. for its high-quality beans, well above average. But most of that money goes to multinational exporters, who buy from middlemen in coffee regions. The giant traders pool beans from small plots and big estates. The anonymous farmer earns a sliver of what Starbucks pays. But Fair Trade's 346 struggling farmer-owned co-ops might need hands-on training and investment to meet Starbucks' specs, an investment the company might find expensive. Indeed, to improve Huatusco Java, Green Mountain had to computerize quality control and bring Mexican farmers to Vermont...
...first chapter? Skip it. Here's a sample: After producer Robert Evans read the screenplay for Sliver, he sent Eszterhas a note telling him how great it was. The note was delivered by a woman wearing only a mink coat. And she carried the note in a place that was not, strictly speaking, a pocket. Oh, and Eszterhas also tells us that he slept with Sharon Stone, and that it wasn't that great. Classy. The trouble with this kind of thing is that it's tasteless without even being...
...bomb shelter that had been converted into a lab. His task was to use an atomic force microscope to get a "snapshot" of the DNA molecule. All he seemed to be getting, though, was a headache. The microscope, which detects the con-tours of molecules by dragging a flexible sliver of coated silicon over them, was malfunctioning. After puzzling through his problem for months, Thundat realized one rainy day during a rare midday foray outdoors that the microscope's probe was warping as it sponged up moisture from the air. Intrigued, he ran a simple experiment and discovered that...
Outside, under a sliver of moon, the cell's surveillance teams are hard at work, monitoring firing positions for their next assault. Spotters circle the area in taxis; others pose as workmen walking home and flip hand signals to passing colleagues. They all report to Abu Ali, a former officer in the Fedayeen Saddam militia who is well schooled in guerrilla tactics. A tall, sinewy figure with a weathered face, Abu Ali makes no secret of his ambition to attack Americans: "I want to kill all Bush's soldiers until they leave Iraq or it becomes their desert graveyard...
BBCA's prime-time audience averages 76,000 viewers, a sliver compared with those of cable networks like FX or HBO, which have lured around 4 million viewers for hot shows like The Shield and The Sopranos. But BBCA's numbers are high enough to earn a Nielsen rating, which puts it beyond the fringe cable channels. In the chase for ad dollars, that places it in league with National Geographic, Oxygen and the Women's Entertainment network. "We deliver the most upscale targeted trendsetting audience in cable," says Lee, referring to a recently completed viewership study for the channel...