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  • n  small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment
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  • Ranking the Biggest 'What-Ifs' in the NBA Draft of the Last Decade
    Alternate histories are fascinating.  The book world has a whole cottage industry of titles that ask questions like "What if the South won the Civil War?" or "What if the Cuban Missile Crisis had ended in nuclear war?" A recent Stephen King book features a time traveler who goes back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Such questions, though less serious, are just as ...
    June 21, 2013 - Bleacher Report
  • Palestinian tobacco faces threat from crackdown on black economy
    By Noah Browning YA'ABAD, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian farmers sow tobacco sprouts in the rocky earth of the northern West Bank, reaping a harvest that provides a reliable livelihood in the struggling occupied territory. From planting, drying and rolling, the local cottage industry has put dozens of whole families to work and has defied high levels of unemployment and poverty. But pressures ...
    June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Small Businesses Help Government Achieve Green Goals
    Small green energy companies are discovering a huge, eager customer: the U.S. government. Pacific Biodiesel is located far from the U.S. mainland in Hawaii. The 50-person company turns used cooking oil and its dirty cousin, restaurant trap grease, into biodiesel. While this may sound like a quaint cottage industry, Pacific Biodiesel actually produces more than five million gallons of alternative ...
    June 20, 2013 - Inc Magazine

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