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Scroll down to the bottom of this page (after reading carefully ALL the articles) and you will find a search engine. This function will search by keyword all of this website, including Archives, plus all 69 of the past issues of BCE.

Every month I get a report on the 50 most used keywords, and you'll never guess what is at the top of the last report. You guessed it, "coffee." There were even a few searches for "nude." I hope they were disappointed.

If you ever had an article published in BCE (since Issue 1, May 2000), enter your name or a keyword and you will find it. But don't look for "coffee." You might wear out the search engine.

L'Shana Tova.

Robert

Aromas threaten veteran coffee firm

By Bruce Kamich

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wake up and smell the coffee? Maybe not in Brooklyn.

Millions of java addicts think that the aroma of freshly roasted coffee is heavenly, but to the Department of Environmental Protection of New York City the "fugitive doors" from a 160-year-old coffee company are unlawful air contaminants.

Acting after a complaint lodged by a neighbour, the city cited Gillies Coffee of Brooklyn with a violation of the air pollution control code.

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Too Much Caffeine? Go Figure

Tue Sep 3,11:51 PM ET

(HealthScoutNews) -- Without realizing it, you could easily be consuming enough caffeine to be affecting your sleep or other aspects of your health. Why? Because consumption of a little of this, a little of that and a bit of something else containing this stimulant will put far more in your system, far faster, than you may realize.

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P&G brews big plans to hook coffee drinkers in their 20s

Cliff Peale USA TODAY

After losing the battle for the thirsts of an entire generation of soft-drink lovers, Procter & Gamble wants to teach the next generation about coffee.

Despite a big cutback in its food and beverage unit, the maker of Folgers and Millstone says it can increase sales of the two brands by concentrating on new consumers in their 20s, as well as veteran coffee drinkers.

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Hunger growing among Nicaragua coffee workers

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Sept 2 (Reuters) - At least 1,600 children are suffering from severe malnutrition in Nicaragua's northern coffee growing areas, where at least 12 unemployed coffee workers and family members have died in recent weeks, Nicaragua's child welfare office said on Monday.

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Colombia approves $34 million coffee aid

September 2, 9:36 PM EDT

BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The Colombian government on Monday announced a $34 million aid package in 2002 to help coffee growers in the world's third-largest producing country.

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Coffee lovers get their own card

East Bay Business Times
David Goll

Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc., the Emeryville-based specialty coffee roaster and marketer, will soon begin making a reloadable debit card available to its loyal customers.

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RABBI PLISKIN'S DAILY LIFT

Daily Lift #105 Act Joyously

Act joyously. These two words are powerful. They work. Test it out congruently and see for yourself how effective this formula is.

If it's so easy, how come everyone isn't radiating joy? I didn't claim it was easy. It's simple to say, but the very fact that not everyone consistently applies it shows that it doesn't come naturally to many people. It takes effort. And it also takes belief in the process. You can counteract the effects of acting joyously by holding back or by repeating to yourself, "This won't really work."

"Act with enthusiastic joy and you will actually experience it," was expressed by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in his classic work "Path of The Just" written in 1740. Since then many professionals in the field of human emotions have repeated this formula. It worked then and it still works now. The more flexible someone is with their emotions, the easier it is for them to apply this. Experiments with biofeedback technology and the testing of hormones in the blood after acting joyously have proven its effectiveness.
(From Rabbi Pliskin's "Happiness", p.34)

Texan's long coffee break is going on 5 years now

By Jake Batsell
Seattle Times business reporter

ELLEN M. BANNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
John Winter Smith is a cross-country nomad from Houston, Texas, who is trying to visit every company-run Starbucks store on Earth. Last week, he added another to his tally at Westlake Center.

Some people follow their muse. John Winter Smith follows the siren.

Smith, an out-of-work software engineer from Houston, has a fascination with Starbucks. He is the self-appointed nomad of specialty coffee, wandering across the country in a quest to visit every company-run Starbucks store on the planet.

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"If more coffee lovers knew how easy it is to roast their own coffee and how much better the coffee tastes when fresh roasted, home roasters would be as popular as toasters or microwaves." Robert Badgett

Undercounting the Ubiquitous Starbucks

Monday, September 2, 2002; Page A22
Washington Post

The Aug. 25 Business article on the proliferation of Starbucks locations in the metro area brought up some troubling issues concerning the coffee seller's tactics. But it underestimated the extent to which Starbucks has canvassed local neighborhoods.

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What is Tea?

A great website called EGO, links to BCE with the following: " I have added Badgett's Coffee eJournal to the Blog category. Please inform me if you find a Tea blog in cyberspace!"

I appreciate the link but I have a question, What is Tea?

Robert

A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe

How to Not Listen
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As ugly as it is to gossip about another's uglier deeds, it is even a greater crime to pay attention to such gossip.

But it is hard to tell someone, "Quiet! I don't want to listen." So think about this:

There will be a time when an angel will wish to report on your doings here on earth. As a person behaves here below, so he is treated from above. If you have had the guts to respond this way, G-d will also say, "Quiet! I don't want to even listen!"

A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman

Crop smaller, but Hawaii now has 700 coffee farms

For the first time ever, there are 700 farms in Hawaii that grow coffee, state agricultural officials say.

That's 30 more coffee growers than a year before. As recently as the 1997-98 season there were only 585 coffee farms.

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Growing coffee: It's black, no sugar

The business is booming, but farmers struggle nonetheless

By Jan McGirk
SPECIAL TO MSNBC

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — Never has coffee as a commodity been cheaper than it is today, earning huge profits for the companies that roast and market the beans. And never have the farmers who grow the crop been so poor. While more than 400 billion cups of coffee are sipped and savored every year - more than any other beverage except water - little of the profit trickles down to the farmers.

WHAT YOU PAY at your local Starbucks for a double latte is more than a typical coffee picker earns in a day. Most of the world’s coffee is grown in Third World nations in Latin America, Asia and Africa. On small plantations, most pickers earn under $2 a day.
Today, coffee ranks just behind petroleum as the world’s second-most traded legal commodity, worth double the value of tea and cocoa combined.

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Cancer Fear Over Coffee

Traces of a substance which may cause human cancer have been found in coffee.

Researchers for German ecology magazine Oeko-Test found acrylamide, well known as a probable cancer-causing agent, in all 24 brands of ground coffee and seven brands of espresso they tested.

But they said the concentration was not as high as in fatty foods such as potato crisps, french fries or bread.

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Starbucks offers 'coffee experience' to countries that take pride in 'café'

Associated Press August 30, 2002

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Starbucks Coffee Co. is opening its first chain of stores here next month, spearheading a push into Latin America, where coffee-growing is a matter of pride and a 50-cent "cafe con leche" is part of the culture.
But the Seattle-based company is trusting in a blend that has given it more than $2.6 billion in sales and a foothold in 24 countries: a strong brew, local beans and a cafe atmosphere.

Starbucks plans to charge about the same prices in Puerto Rico and Mexico as it does in the United States, where a small coffee costs $1.68 and a large specialty coffee drink tops $5.

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East African coffee growers fight back

Falling coffee prices have hit producers hard

Coffee growers in East Africa have started to fight back against the crippling price drops which have hit their industry by using techniques learned from the worldwide success of Champagne.

They plan to create an 'appellation' - a marque which guarantees coffees come from the best regions, with the best production methods and promise the best taste.

It echoes the French system of protecting high-value wines by banning imitators.

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Lotion laced with caffeine fights cancer

Published Wednesday, August 28, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - Laboratory mice slathered with caffeine developed fewer skin tumors than untreated animals, suggesting the chemical that adds zip to coffee and tea also might protect against skin cancer, researchers say.

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