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Pernod Ricard paid top dollar for Absolut because it believes its marketing muscle can increase sales from last year's 10.7 million cases. But the economics of producing vodka surely played a part in its calculations. Whisky and brandy spend years maturing in wooden casks before they can be sold, tying up cash in inventory, but vodka is practically an instant money machine. The chemistry is simple: ferment grain or potatoes or even grapes to make alcohol, then concentrate it by distillation. Filter the resulting colorless, odorless spirit, possibly give it a fruit flavor, push out the publicity boat with...
...smiling. It’s a warm day in Cambridge, the first in a while, and the sun coming in through the window shines off his endearingly bald head. “The Hair of the Man,” a poem celebrating the joys of baldness, decorates the wooden door to his corner office on the 14th floor of William James. Entering his office is not unlike asking him a question—the result is a stream of new ideas and unexpected discoveries. On the giant bulletin board, strands of jewel-toned Mardi Gras beads dangle over journal...
Baby boutiques and department stores are featuring nursery lines with curvilinear high chairs, sleek wooden rockers and oval-shaped cribs that would make modernist masters Charles and Ray Eames feel at home. "It used to be unheard of to have anything but a pink or blue nursery," says Trish Holbrook-Meyler, owner of Modern Nursery, an online boutique whose sales have risen 84% over the past year. "But today's generation of parents--who tend to be older and more used to their existing dcor--are opting for sleeker lines that go with the rest of their furniture...
...next day we drove 45 minutes north to Longmont, near Boulder. At Left Hand Brewing Co., co-founder Dick Doore, who has a master's in mechanical engineering as well as a crazy, bushy mound of long red hair and a beard, took us behind his beautiful wooden bar and gave us a tour of the vat rooms, which were littered with copies of the New Yorker and a half-finished chess game. Afterward, I sat at the combination bar-gift shop, and Doore let me pour a cream stout that was all malty, roasty goodness...
Yalokole is a town of grass-roofed huts on the edge of the Kokolopori forest, erected around a giant termite mound on which sit two wooden talking drums--still the only way to communicate long distance in central Congo. Close by, in Yalokole's mud-floor, mud-wall, tin-roof church, Tusumba is giving a speech...