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Coffee Not The Culprit (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)
A new study of more than 128,000 men and women and found heavy, long-term coffee drinking does not raise the risk of heart disease for most people. Study subjects drank up to six cups of coffee a day.

Forget tea leaves, Indian fortune teller sees life in a coffee cup (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tucked away in a nondescript building in India’s high-tech city, Nawal Gani sits in her drawing room drying coffee cups after yet another session of telling people’s fortunes.

Waterbury coffee company deserves high praise (The Burlington Free Press)
Published: Saturday, April 29, 2006 Vermont should take pride in the accomplishments of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., the Waterbury company named the nation’s top corporate citizen by Business Ethics magazine.

Coffee shop brewing (Florida Today)
Indian River Coffee Co. is expanding, adding a new Melbourne site, with three more on the way for 2007.

Church in the Wildwood opens coffee house on Saturday nights (Hernando Today)
WEEKI WACHEE - If Saturday nights offer little for local youth, Christian Church in the Wildwood jives with its new Vine Coffee House. The music is live. And lively.

Forget tea leaves, Indian fortune teller sees life in a coffee cup (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tucked away in a nondescript building in India’s high-tech city, Nawal Gani sits in her drawing room drying coffee cups after yet another session of telling people’s fortunes.

Have another cup: Coffee grounds can be used as a soil amendment (Inside Bay Area)
Q. I’ve heard lots of pros and cons about using coffee grounds around plants. What are your thoughts on how they should be used? A.

Church in the Wildwood opens coffee house on Saturday nights (Hernando Today)
WEEKI WACHEE - If Saturday nights offer little for local youth, Christian Church in the Wildwood jives with its new Vine Coffee House. The music is live. And lively.

Magazine awards Green Mountain Coffee Roasters corporate citizen (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
MONTPELIER — Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. of Waterbury is the top corporate citizen in the country, according to an annual list compiled by Business Ethics magazine. … - The Associated Press

Coffee Day retail chain’s plans in South (The Hindu)
CHENNAI: Coffee Day `Fresh ‘n Ground’, a filter coffee powder retail store chain, plans to enhance its presence in the South. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, C. J. Jayanth, Business Head, said the company was planning to open at …

DJ Nybot Coffee Review: Higher As Other Commodities Rise - TMCnet

Govt considers payout to tide over coffee farmers - RJR

Is there a health problem when your coffee cup runneth overtime? - Fort Wayne News Sentinel

The magic of coffee houses - Salmon Arm Observer

Coffee the Weapon of Choice in Robbery - KSL-TV

Top Spot for Green Mtn. Coffee (WCAX 3)
Big recognition Thursday for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. The Waterbury company has been ranked number one on Business Ethics magazine’s 2006 list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens.

Coffee Not The Culprit (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)
A new study of more than 128,000 men and women and found heavy, long-term coffee drinking does not raise the risk of heart disease for most people. Study subjects drank up to six cups of coffee a day.

Coffee shop making a rhythm all its own (The Oregonian)
A young couple sat on overstuffed chairs beneath a wall decorated with paintings by a local artist. He drank from a coffee cup the size of a small soup bowl; she sipped one of those fancy coffee drinks topped with whipped cream.

Vermont coffee company tops national list of top corporate citizens (The Burlington Free Press)
Published: Thursday, April 27, 2006 Waterubry-based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. has been ranked No. 1 on Business Ethics magazine€™s 2006 list of €œ100 Best Corporate Citizens,€œ Ths company said this morning.

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-04-27 15:26 GMT: Nestle Portugal fined 1 mln eur for stifling competition in coffee market (Interactive Investor)
LISBON (AFX) - Portugal’s antitrust regulator AdC said it has fined the Portuguese arm of Nestle AG 1 mln eur because its exclusivity contracts with restaurants and hotels for the supply of coffee stifled competition.

Costa Coffee outlet opens at Dubai International Airport’s Arrivals Hall (AME Info)
MMI, the Dubai-based consumer and leisure brand marketing company continues its development of the Costa franchise in the UAE with the opening of a Costa Coffee outlet at Dubai International Airport’s Arrivals Hall.

Coffee cup feud settled (News 24 South Africa)
A feud over a discarded coffee cup containing prizes worth thousands of dollars in a contest has been settled.

INSIDE PARLIAMENT - Gallimore raps Government’s reluctance to help coffee farmers (Jamaica Gleaner)
AGRICULTURE MINISTER Roger Clarke came under fire from Opposition Member of Parliament Andrew Gallimore for what he claimed was the Government’s refusal to assist coffee farmers who are unable to collect insurance claims from bankrupt Dyoll…

NO SHOW AT COFFEE CITY (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
COFFEE CITY - As Coffee City city council members Darlene Jordan and Doris Harmon feared, councilman Henry Thirkill was a no-show for the special meeting that was supposed to take place Saturday morning.

Maoist posters in Kolkata’s Coffee House (Yahoo! India News)
Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) Coffee House, the well known spacious cafe in north Kolkata’s academic hub College Street and a meeting place of Maoists in the turbulent 1970s, once again witnessed a semblance of militant communism with Maoists daring to stick posters decrying the assembly elections on its walls.

McDonald’s net falls; New coffee, hours boost sales (Chicago Tribune)
McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largest restaurant company, said first-quarter profit fell 14 percent from a year earlier, when it had a tax gain. Sales rose 6.2 percent, spurred by the addition of a new blend of coffee and expanded store hours.

Maoist posters in Kolkata’s Coffee House (New Kerala)
Kolkata: Coffee House, the well known spacious cafe in north Kolkata’s academic hub College Street and a meeting place of Maoists in the turbulent 1970s, once again witnessed a semblance of militant communism with Maoists daring to stick posters decrying the assembly elections on its walls.

Men with shotgun rob coffee shop (San Diego Union-Tribune)
ROLANDO, April 21 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Two men wearing wigs and armed with a shotgun held up a Starbucks Coffee on El Cajon Boulevard last night.

Coffee Tree Homemakers meet (News Democrat & Leader)
The regular meeting of the Coffee Tree Homemaker Club was held on April 10, at 6:30 at the Logan County Extension Office. President Opal McReynolds called the meeting to order.

Coffee House Concerts (Garden City News)
In support of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus will perform at Coffee House Concerts at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Garden City, on Friday, May 5, at 8:00 p.m.

McDonald’s Net Falls; New Coffee, Hours Boost Sales (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
April 21 (Bloomberg) — McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largest restaurant company, said first-quarter profit fell 14 percent from a year earlier, when it had a tax gain. Sales rose 6.2 percent on a new blend of coffee and longer store hours.

Letters: Coffee or latte? (Park Rapids Enterprise)
or latte? What is spin? Spin is the whipped up froth over that cup of flavored coffee we call latte. It is what the coffee shops have done to get us to spend $4.50 for a 50-cent cup of coffee.

Coffee Tree Homemakers meet (News Democrat & Leader)
The regular meeting of the Coffee Tree Homemaker Club was held on April 10, at 6:30 at the Logan County Extension Office. President Opal McReynolds called the meeting to order.

Coffee House Concerts (Garden City News)
In support of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus will perform at Coffee House Concerts at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Garden City, on Friday, May 5, at 8:00 p.m.

Diedrich Coffee Reports Third Quarter Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Diedrich Coffee, Inc. today announced operating results for its third fiscal quarter of 2006, which ended March 8, 2006.

UGANDA : Coffee earnings trebble despite reduced volumes - African News Dimension

McDonald&’s Net Falls; New Coffee, Hours Boost Sales (Update1) - Bloomberg

Washington Post

McDonald&’s Net Falls; New Coffee, Hours Boost Sales (Update1) Bloomberg - 56 minutes ago … when it had a tax gain. Sales rose 6.2 percent on a new blend of coffee and longer store hours. Net income dropped to $625.3 million … McDonald&’s profit drops by most since 2002 San Jose Mercury News McDonald&’s Profit Falls 14% Wall Street Journal (subscription) UPDATE 2-McDonald&’s 1st-qtr net income down, sales up Reuters Washington Post - MSN Money - all 124 related

Colquitt beats Coffee in match play - Moultrie Observer

Rastogi in quarters of Coffee Cup - Indiatimes

Mmm, sewer coffee - AdJab

AdJab

Mmm, sewer coffee AdJab, CA - 20 hours ago Okay, that&’s not exactly true, although it was nice to remember those old commercials when they used to switch regular coffee with Folgers, wasn&’t it? … Stopping by Dunkin Donut&’s D Stop AdJab all 20 related

Coffee Federation expands its membership (Drinks Business Review)
The Papua New Guinea Coffee Growers Federation has increased its membership by an additional 35 new co-operatives.

Officials Investigate Coffee County Shootings (WKRN Nashville)
Coffee County Police continue to comb the woods Thursday for a man they said shot a woman and baby. Sheriff’s deputies are working two crime scenes and there is a man hunt for one, possibly two suspects who allegedly shot a woman and a baby. They were each sent to different hospitals with gun shot wounds. There were two shootings in the rural area outside of…

Battle over discarded coffee cup resolved (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A feud over a discarded coffee cup worth thousands of dollars in a fastfood chain contest has been settled in favor of a 10-year old girl, ending weeks of national debate in Canada over who should claim the prize.

TERMINATION OF SECRETARY ON COFFEE CITY AGENDA (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
COFFEE CITY - Three Coffee City City Council members have called a special meeting to discuss terminating city secretary Rose Warren after a Henderson County grand jury indicted Mrs. Warren on class-A misdemeanor charges of theft.

Emerging middle classes wake up to coffee (Reuters.co.uk)
LONDON (Reuters) - The new middle classes in Brazil, Russia, China and other emerging economies have got the taste for coffee and are driving world consumption higher, analysts say.

Emerging middle classes wake up to coffee - Reuters.uk

Coffee and computers help Hu feel at home Starbucks fan - People’s Daily Online

Sydney Morning Herald

Coffee and computers help Hu feel at home Starbucks fan People’s Daily Online, China - 12 hours ago … dignitaries during a dinner yesterday at the home of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Hu expressed his desire to be a regular at the ubiquitous coffee-store chain … Hu Bids Farewell to One Washington, Heads for the Other Los Angeles Times Security tight at Boeing plant Seattle Times China-US trade a &’win-win&’ Seattle Post Intelligencer all 826 related

Starbucks someday to sell coffee in Chinese marts - Reuters

Coffee sector needs 1,000 Haitian laborers for upcoming crop - Dominican Today

Nespresso Puts Coffee in Your Car - TechLiving

TechLiving

Nespresso Puts Coffee in Your Car TechLiving, MA - 1 hour ago Ever feel like taking a little nappy while stuck in morning traffic? The Nespresso InCar coffee concept might be just the wake-up you&’re looking for. …