Peter Binzen | Firm's goal: Changing how students pay for laundry
Here's a new way for college students to better watch their money. And also wash their laundry. Many students now charge meals, books and phone calls to their personal accounts that are kept by school credit offices.
( By Peter Binzen, Inquirer Columnist, 09/23/2002 09:11 AM EDT)

Peter Binzen | He had retired early, but his love for plants still called
The other day, a 48-foot tractor-trailer rumbled to a stop at Philadelphia Houseplant Wholesalers Inc. at 1233 Bainbridge St. with a delivery of tropical plants from Florida.
( By Peter Binzen, Inquirer Columnist, 09/16/2002 01:44 PM EDT)

Peter Binzen | Casualties of war led to medical device
After the Gulf war, the chief of resuscitative medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research studied the effectiveness of the traditional IV bags in battlefield conditions.
( By Peter Binzen, Inquirer Columnist, 09/09/2002 11:05 AM EDT)

Peter Binzen | Building a better construction firm
Working from her home in Glenside, Saigon-born Kaitlin Do runs a small construction business. Under contracts with different federal agencies, AnVi & Associates maintains, repairs and remodels buildings along the East Coast. Last year, the company had revenue of about $4 million.
( By Peter Binzen, Inquirer Columnist, 09/02/2002 07:45 AM EDT)

Peter Binzen | Extracting products - and profits - from animals
One day in October 1911, a 60,000-pound whale 58 feet in length washed ashore in Ocean City, N.J. The carcass was removed and "utilized" by the Berg Co., a Philadelphia firm that collected the fat and bones of dead animals to make glue, bone meal, fertilizer, and animal-oil products. A postcard memorialized the beaching of the "gigantic whale."
( By Peter Binzen, Inquirer Columnist, 08/19/2002 01:25 PM EDT)

Peter Binzen | Corporate sleaze angers a proud business owner
Jim White is an angry executive these days. He runs a family-owned contracting business, J.J. White Inc., in Philadelphia's Lawndale section.
( By Peter Binzen, Inquirer Columnist, 07/29/2002 08:59 AM EDT)