A friend recently sent me a NY Times article, "Can Burt's Bees Turn Clorox Green (www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06...06bees.html "), about this true, honest-to-God, home-grown, mom'n'pop enterprise.... that developed into a company worth $913 million -- at least to Clorox, which purchased it last November.

Like Ben & Jerrys, Tom's of Maine and other eponymous leafy green companies (also bought out by ....

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