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...Ambient's parameters are limited only by the boundaries of imagination. The common denominator is slapping ads in unexpected places: gas-pump nozzles, supermarket floors, shopping carts, the sides of trucks - even inside golf holes. And technology is giving marketers even more opportunities: interactive TV screens in the backs of taxis, moving 3-D images that can be printed on posters and postcards, machines that produce 3-D holographs of products and logos that seemingly morph into one another and hover in space. Sometimes the forms mix. London agency The Media Vehicle uses 3-D effects to produce cart-stopping...
...Rule has re-emerged as America's primary meal- planning guide: if she never heard of it, don't serve it. With a couple of children in tow, mothers and fathers simply don't have time to hunt for goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes in the supermarket. Marsha Bristow Bostick fondly recalls the leisurely evenings she spent at home before her children were born, ''cooking wonderful things with my husband while we sipped white wine.'' Now? ''We're eating SpaghettiO's, fried chicken, lots of terrible-for- you casseroles covered in cheese...
...most of the country, however, things are brighter. Supermarket meat shelves are full, and Britons can sate themselves on an unlimited supply of imported meat as well as cuts from healthy British livestock. For most people, the crisis is nothing more than...
...Market pressures have contributed to the dilemmas of disease prevention. The large supermarket chains that now control much of retail food distribution have driven down consumer prices partly by centralizing production, cramming livestock into large holding markets and slaughterhouses that are virtual hothouses for disease. "Supermarkets have a big role to play for that because they insist on having all their meat taken to one abattoir to be slaughtered," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. Add to that the expansion of global trade in livestock and meat products-the market has grown by an average of 9% a year...
...this week, rather than sell imported meat. "That's not something we're going to do," he says. "There's a principle involved here." But unlike foot-and-mouth disease, such empathy didn't travel far. About 10 km down the road, business is brisk at a brand new supermarket that had every intention of keeping its shelves stocked...