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Sleeptek, an organic-bedding manufacturer based in Ottawa, Canada, has also reaped the benefits of increased consumer interest in the material. In 2000, sales of the company's Green Sleep natural-latex mattresses represented only 20% of total revenues, vs. those of innerspring mattresses. In 2006 Sleeptek's sales of natural-latex mattresses from Green Sleep and its newer Obasan line--up 30% from 2005--were 60% of the company's $4 million revenues...
...countries and the global oil companies, the benefits are so compelling that they trump politics and old ethnic rivalries. The Caspian's oil and natural gas reserves, which some estimates have put as large as 200 billion bbl. (vs. 260 billion in Saudi Arabia), could deliver economic independence to the South Caucasus region and energy independence to the West. "This is about diversifying energy supplies," says Michael Townshend, a BP executive who ran the project in Baku until last year. "It is not from the Middle East and it is not from Russia...
...think their critics don't understand the extreme nature of this case. The critics, especially advocates for the disabled, think the doctors don't understand the true cost of what they have done. Talk to all sides, and you confront every modern challenge in weighing what medicine can do vs. what it should...
...vs. Old Media
...nonsense. Greg Miller, executive VP of innovation for National Dairy Council, says sheer volume of results doesn't mean much. "As a scientist I'm more interested in the quality of the research," he says. And the PloS Medicine study looks only at the absolute number of favorable vs. unfavorable results, not at the nature of the research undertaken or at how much attention each publication received. "We [at National Dairy Council] bring good science to the table," Miller says. "If we don't, we won't get a seat at the table...