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...Other compromises are made with the farm's livestock. Stone Barns is raising roughly 450 turkeys this season, and most of them are Broad-Breasted Whites, the conventional breed you can buy in a regular grocery store. The Whites are distinguished by their genetically huge breasts and - as a consequence - their inability to have sex with one another. (Virtually every turkey you have ever eaten could not copulate without human aid.) These turkeys are a freak of human engineering, so what are they doing at an idyll like Stone Barns? Ditto the Cornish/Rock Cross chickens, a quick-growing, large-breasted...
...established a network of 102 independent dealerships operating in 116 locations across the country, many of which try to gin up business by running Segway-powered sightseeing tours. David Floyd, a dealer in Estes Park, Col., says about one tourist in 30 returns to buy a PT from his store. But his main business, he says, comes from the commercial market...
...printing equipment to British retailers such as Tesco, Boots and Jessops had been reliable for five years, at about 600 units per year. But in 2005, those numbers halved. The company says that major retail customers no longer needed to buy new minilabs, so Fujifilm is now promoting "in-store ordering terminals" to new customers as part of its "print at retail" push. Kodak, too, is relying heavily on the printing business. Jaime Cohen Szulc, general manager of Kodak's camera business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, points out that people print only about 28% of their digital...
After years of failed attempts to unionize big-box stores, labor seems to have hit on a winning legislative tactic in the battle over pay. Congress hasn't acted in nearly a decade, and although 140 local living-wage laws have been enacted in the U.S., most apply just to city workers or contractors. Union leaders say the Chicago rule means a long-overdue raise for the working poor. In real terms, wages for nonmanagerial retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic...
...back, now may be the time to buy. The problem, of course, is figuring out what to get. Alfred Poor, author of Professor Poor's Guide to Buying HDTV, suggests that instead of trying to sort through all the specifications and jargon at home, shoppers should go to a store. "The best thing you can do is trust your eyes," he advises. Here's what to look...