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...Bordeaux, a Chianti or a Riesling to evoke the taste and scent of Europe in a wine glass. The problem, according to the "wine lake" cliché. is that the continent is swimming in the stuff, thanks to E.U. farm polices that have sought to keep prices stable by stockpiling unsold wine. The current unsold inventory now adds up to more than a year's production - enough to fill 8,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools...
...have been pouring taxpayers' money into distillation schemes [to convert unsold wine to industrial alcohol] while New World wine-producers have been running rings round us," E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said last week. "Clearly, we must take a different approach to helping Europe's excellent wines punch their weight around the world more consistently...
...Even though a new report from the National Association of Realtors showed that sales of previously owned homes rose 3% in January, the median price of those homes fell to $210,600, down 3% from the same period last year. Inventories of unsold homes also remain high...
...such culinary legends as Chef Boyardee, Reddi-Wip, Swiss Miss and Slim Jim is racing to retrieve and incinerate the polluted peanut spread as quickly as it can. It has advised consumers to throw out any remaining Peter Pan in their kitchen cabinets, but it is also busy retrieving unsold jars from major retailers. The company refused to confirm whether it would actually incinerate all the offending peanut butter that is returned or still at the plant; there is also a provision from the FDA that allows ConAgra to irreparably "damage" or crush the jars and then dispose of them...
...housing downturn wrecked the hopes of many a builder, leaving even big outfits like Pulte Homes, based in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., with unsold homes and too much land. Once the nation's largest builder by revenue, it dropped to No. 4 after a bad 2006 but found solace in its Del Webb brand, aimed at people 55 and older. TIME's Cathy Booth Thomas talked to Pulte president and CEO Richard Dugas, who is banking on these baby boomers to help the bottom line. For the record, he is, at 41, too young to live in a Del Webb community...