 CONWAY -- When Greg Hyman looks over his field of muscadine grapes, he sees blended drinks, fiber-rich foods and skin lotion. Hyman is a fourth-generation farmer who lives south of Conway in Horry County, and has planted eight acres of the grapes after teaming up with Myrtle Beach dermatologist Dr. Robert Bibb in 1998, when Bibb approached him about growing produce for medicinal purposes.
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 COLUMBIA -- University of South Carolina President Andrew A. Sorensen in a recent address said, “If we South Carolinians wish to experience the kind of economic development of which we are capable, we must be much more aggressive and imaginative in cultivating the unending stream of intellectual property from our research universities.”
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Coastal residents are well acquainted with the power of the wind. In fact, they’ve given names to incidents of its overabundance: Katrina. Camille. Hugo. But recent initiatives to harness the wind’s potential for energy production could revise even a hurricane victim’s opinion of one of nature’s most powerful forces.
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Thanks to China and India’s embrace of containerized cargo shipping, every major container seaport in North America handled record amounts of cargo in 2005. So fast has the trade grown, and with the promise of more to come, that the ports along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are feverishly seeking to build new terminals, expand the ones they have and deepen their navigation channels to support the booming seagoing trade.
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Growing South Carolina's knowledge economy is a business that is as much about nurturing and tending the fields as were the rice and cotton farms that made South Carolina a thriving business region centuries ago.
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A Winn-Dixie grocery store closes in the Upstate community of Westminster. In Union, the textile mills close, leaving 425 workers wondering how they will support their families.
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