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...livestock of prospering nations as they move to improve their diets. "The market for American farming has been and will be meat, milk and eggs, and the feeds with which to produce them." If American agriculture fails to seize this opportunity, says Avery, then in 50 years, 40 million sq. mi. of the globe's remaining wildlife habitat may be plowed up in a desperate race against hunger...
Along Harlem's main thoroughfare, 125th Street, business is booming, a function of indigenous forces mostly but of Clinton's policies as well. The vacancy rate for commercial property is less than 2%, and space is renting for more than $30 per sq. ft., about the same as in midtown Manhattan, an astounding surge. New stores will soon dot the cross streets, and nearby housing units are being rehabilitated. The private investment responsible for most of this growth is following rising incomes and the return of better-off families. Perhaps most important is the anticipated designation of the area...
...Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago have designed a special-purpose biochemical "superchip" that can determine gene sequences -- the precise arrangement of the chemical building blocks that make up a strand of DNA -- 1,000 times as fast as conventional means. If it performs as promised, the 1-in.-sq. chip could shave years -- and hundreds of millions of dollars -- off the Human Genome Project, the worldwide effort to decipher each of the 100,000 genes found in a human cell...
Airlines have begun to cater specifically to the itinerant bargain hunters. Between October and March, Northwest Airlines offered a "Shop Till You Drop" tour that flew Britons and Japanese to the Mall of America in Bloomington, ) Minnesota, a 4.2 million-sq.-ft. behemoth with 420 stores. On the plan for the Britons, single-minded consumers boarded a plane in London late Friday afternoon, got to Minneapolis Saturday morning, shopped all day and arrived back in London early Sunday. "We compared a dozen items -- perfumes, blue jeans, fancy stationery items like Montblanc pens -- bought at the Mall of America to what...
...Sawgrass Mills near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which at 2.2 million sq. ft. claims to be "the world's largest outlet mall," a third of the 17.5 million annual visitors are foreign tourists. On a typical summer day 13 busloads arrive, spending an average of $200 to $300 a person in as little as 90 minutes. Tours are met by trilingual greeters who hand out shopping bags. The mall provides a foreign-currency exchange counter for anyone who needs more money fast. Says Jay Santos, vice president of ACC Tours, which shepherds 100,000 international visitors a year: "We have...