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...scoreboard with the tally of all past Harvard-Yale football games adorns one of the walls, as does a board with the current Straus Cup standings for House intramurals...
...forthcoming book will be published by New York-based Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is due out in September, according to Walt, who declined to answer other questions about the book. Mearsheimer did not respond to phone calls to his office in Chicago...
Like all great merchants, Drexler is a relentless store walker, picking up details on operations, fashion and consumer behavior like so much lint. "You can get numbers, but there's no flavor," says Drexler, who fell in love with retail during a summer job at the now defunct Abraham & Straus department store exactly because he wasn't deskbound. After stints at Bloomingdale's and Macy's, he became ceo of Ann Taylor and revived the company, which got the attention of Gap founder Donald Fisher. It has all contributed to an almost eerie command of what's happening around...
...Straus and five other natural food producers, including industry leader Whole Foods, announced last week that they would seek a new certification for their products, "non-GMO verified," in the hopes that it will become a voluntary industry standard for GM-free goods. A non-profit group called the Non-GMO Project runs the program, and the testing is conducted by an outside lab called Genetic ID. In a few weeks, Straus expects to become the first food manufacturer in the country to carry the label in addition to his "organic" one. With Whole Foods in the ring, the rest...
...Earning the non-GMO label, at least initially, requires nearly as much effort as getting certified organic. To root out the genetically modified corn, Straus spent several months and about $10,000 testing, re-testing and tracing back his products: from his own dairy's milk, to other dairies that supply some of his milk, to the brokers who sell them feed, to their mills that grind the corn, to farmers who grow it. To put the GM-free label on his ice cream, Straus will have to trace the chickens that provided the egg yolks, the grain used...