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...Bordeaux. The measures only go so far: they still leave 17,000 different Bordeaux wine labels, and only a few hundred producers to date have signed up for the scheme to be paid to get out of the business altogether. As part of its measures, the civb agreed to supplement the subsidies for distillation, a move that is furiously contested by some, including Delpeuch, who argues that it makes no sense to encourage bad wine to be made in the first place. And it's no easy task persuading proud villages to give up their names; one planned merger between...
Harvard topped the list of the world’s best universities for the third consecutive year, according to a British ranking published last week. The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) placed Harvard at number one in its third annual ranking of the top 200 universities around the world. Princeton, which bested Harvard in this year’s U.S. News and World Report, was ranked 10th by THES. While Princeton fell one spot from the previous year, Yale moved up three, tying MIT for fourth place. “Universities continue to define themselves internationally, both at subject level...
...major regulatory oversight would be a new hurdle for the supplement business, thanks to some old friends in Washington. Senator Hatch co-sponsored the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which released manufacturers from demonstrating that products were safe before being sold. Hatch has invested in a Utah company called Pharmics, and other supplement companies contribute regularly to his campaigns. XanGo recently became Hatch's top contributor, with executives donating...
Another concern: supplement companies may soon have to rethink their MLM models in order to go global. In July, Nu Skin received word that China's Ministry of Commerce has approved the company's proposal to begin direct sales in that country early next year. (So far, Avon is the only other such U.S. company allowed there.) Nu Skin has poured $100 million into manufacturing plants and opened 150 retail shops in China. But it won't be business as usual. Under the license, Chinese distributors earn commissions on products sold outside stores but won't be paid to recruit...
With much of Asia already supplement crazy, U.S. companies believe that China is a natural market for their goods, many of which are derived, after all, from Asian herbs and plants. Consider the buzz in holistic-healing circles around Himalayan goji berries, used in Tibet for nearly 2,000 years to treat kidney problems, allergies, diabetes and tuberculosis. At least that's according to the marketing materials of Timpanogos Nursery, a farm growing goji berries--in Utah. The mangosteen may have met its match...