Today Roxas chairman emeritus of Roxas Holdings, nation's largest producer of raw sugar and second-largest refiner of raw sugar.

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To overcome the seasonality of the sugar business--mills tend to remain idle for six months after the crushing season--the Murkumbis modified the Munoli factory to start refining raw sugar once imports of the commodity were allowed in 2004.

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In the pocket of the greasy vest that he wore under his kurta she found a wrapped-up newspaper holding chunks of raw brown sugar.

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In the past we've seen a tongue-based computer interface or two, the BrainPort sight-via-papillae solution, and this week, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced a sensor about the size of a business card that detects and identifies fourteen common sweeteners -- including Splenda, Sugar in the Raw, and Sweet'n'Low.

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These people almost universally went from a cooked food, meat-centered diet and gave up their meat, their dairy products and their refined sugar and switched to a raw food vegetarian diet, and by simply changing diets their bodies were able to cure their cancer.

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It's a day covered in flour, food coloring, and way too many varieties of sugar, and when the only things more eagerly shared than bits of gossip are the samples of raw cookie dough and icing.

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