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...Its annual return on equity is a hefty 46%.

Focus Media Holding (FMCN), meanwhile, soared 3.69 to 58.66 in slightly heavier volume.

The China-based advertising firm has delivered huge earnings and sales increases in recent quarters.

Analysts see 2006 profit rising 95% to $1.17 a share.

Its Fundamental Rating of 90 from IBD Stock Checkup ranks it No.

3 out of 30 stocks in the Commercial Services-Advertising group.

Wesco International (WCC) jumped 1.10 to an all-time high of 67.89.

Matrix Research upgraded the electronic parts distributor to buy from hold.

Earnings and sales growth has accelerated for two straight quarters.

Barnes Group (B) gapped up 1.35 to 40.28, an all time high.

The diversified manufacturer of precision metal components will report first-quarter results on April 20.

Analyst expect earnings to increase 15% to 62 cents a share with sales rising 9% to $299.6 million.

In industry group action, the Transportation-Airline group was among the best performers, rising 1.2%.

US Airways (LCC) rose 2.16 to 39.65; IBD 100 firm Gol Intelligent Airlines (GOL) added 1.34 to 26.65 and SkyWest (SKYW) gained 1.18 to 29.08.

On the downside, Ruth's Chris Steak House (RUTH) gapped down 50 cents to 23.50.

Volume was tracking more than twice its average.

Late Thursday, the restaurant chain reported preliminary first-quarter sales for its company-owned restaurants and reiterated its first qua...

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News » EnvironmentCorporate hog farms grow, and raise a stinkOdor a four-letter word in some towns that retaliate with regulationsL.G.

Patterson / APJared Windmann looks over the hogs he is raising under contract for Cargill on his farm east of Mexico, Mo.

Cargill is wanting to sign up farmers like Windmann in the area to raise hogs closer to their processing plants.MARK TWAIN LAKE, Mo.

- Dick Lawler says he won't surrender Mark Twain Lake, a recreation and drinking water resource for 21 communities in northeast Missouri, to a hog farm proposed nearby.The real estate agent and resident is leading the fight to stop what he calls a "declared war on our lake" by corporate interests.

He fears contamination, odor and loss of the community's quality of life.But if Lawler's camp fears large-scale hog farms would spoil the air, water, aesthetics and property values, young farmer Jared Windmann sees corporate hog farming as salvation.His family raises thousands of hogs under a contract with Minnesota-based Cargill Inc., an agreement tha...