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5-14-2009 12:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bdf0dec2-3022-48d0-b944-661fa140449b/2570F51C-6ABF-44E7-A8E5-552B31A45BC4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=home" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=home" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bloomberg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=home"><SPAN class="news_story_title">‘Superfood’ Promoted on Oprah’s Site Robs Amazon Poor of Staple </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=home"><P>     May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Rising U.S. sales of acai, a purple
Amazon berry promoted as a “superfood” on <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Oprah+Winfrey&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Oprah Winfrey</A>’s <A target="_blank" href="http://www.oprah.com">Web
site</A>, are depriving Brazilian jungle dwellers of a protein-rich
nutrient they’ve relied on for generations.     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=home"><P>U.S. consumers are turning a “a typical poor people’s food
into something like a delicacy,” said Oscar Nogueira, who
specializes in the fruit at <A target="_blank" href="http://www.embrapa.br">Embrapa</A>, Brazil’s agricultural
research company.     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ai8WCgSJrhmY&refer=home"><P><A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Winfrey&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Winfrey</A>, 55, discussed the berry with <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Mehmet+Oz&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Mehmet Oz</A> on her TV
talk show in February 2008, when the New York cardiologist
presented his “<A target="_blank" href="http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/slideshow1_ss_oz_20080205/3">anti-aging checklist</A>.” It includes acai,
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miles) north of Brasilia, Francisca Neves, who sells manioc
flour to neighbors and restaurants, says the bitter pulp she
used to eat twice a day is now a luxury.     </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2570F51C-6ABF-44E7-A8E5-552B31A45BC4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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