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...more popular fruits of the 18th and 19th centuries - as well as grapes, melons and nuts, before ending with pears and apples. Brookshaw wanted to promote "the highest flavored fruit, and from the earliest to the latest period possible." But by the standards of today's supermarket, most varieties in his book did not pass the test. When was the last time you saw a Winter Swan's Egg Pear at the store or had the juice from a Grimwood's Royal Charlotte Peach dribble down your chin? These fruits weren't commercially viable in the 1800s, and those that...
...Clyde French police arrested a man and a woman alleged to be military leaders of ETA, the Basque separatist group, in a raid that Spain called a blow "against terrorism." Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi, 35, and Ainhoa Múgica Goñi, 32, were seized at a supermarket in the suburbs of Bordeaux after weeks of police surveillance. Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the couple were carrying arms in their car. Múgica and Olarra are accused of numerous attacks and killings in Spain. Olarra is thought to have become ETA's military leader after the arrest...
...lunchtime at the Whole Foods supermarket in Plano, Texas, as artist Raquel Brownfield, 57, pulls into the parking lot in her red BMW roadster. She is about to enter foodie heaven: a grocery store brimming with everything from fresh organic produce and dried beans to slabs of hormone-free beef and boysenberry pies. "I usually go in thinking I'm going to spend under $30," says Brownfield, who visits the store a couple of times a week, "but I spend between...
...grocery chains are as clever as Whole Foods Markets at enticing shoppers to gorge on fancy fare. With $2.3 billion in revenue and a 20% profit surge last year, Whole Foods trounced its rivals in the conventional-supermarket business; most of them muddled through with 1% to 2% sales growth. Whole Foods, though, doesn't sell just groceries. It offers something more ethereal: a feeling of healthy chic that pervades its stores and products and rubs off on customers. Even if you're buying fat-marbled T-bones and Camembert cheese, you're surrounded by colorful fruits and vegetables...
FUND MANAGEMENT Investors Stake Their Claim The relationship between fund manager and client continues to take a litigious turn. Last week, the investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. settled a dispute with the British supermarket group J. Sainsbury over alleged mismanagement of Sainsbury's pension fund. The undisclosed settlement helped Merrill avoid a repeat of its court battle last year with Anglo-Dutch concern Unilever, also over pension fund mismanagement. In that case, Unilever had alleged that returns on its pension fund had trailed the market by an amount larger than was permitted under the terms of its contract with Mercury...