"We're going to sell Viansa at Safeway, " Sebastiani says Shapiro told him. (Shapiro denies making the remark).

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"We tested our model in an independent set of centenarians and achieved an accuracy of 77%, " explained Professor Sebastiani.

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Sebastiani had a larger issue: Shapiro's plan to install Jonathan Sebastiani, Sam's former stepson, in the top job at Viansa.

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The younger Sebastiani, according to two of his relatives, had a habit of getting drunk and driving into objects--on one occasion, a stop sign.

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The research was led by Paola Sebastiani, a professor of biostatistics at Boston University, and Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine, also at Boston University.

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"We're going to sell Viansa at Safeway (nyse: SWY - news - people ), " Sebastiani says Shapiro told him. (Shapiro denies making the remark).

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Sebastiani met with Shapiro and asked about his distribution plans.

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Jon Sebastiani, a marathoner who founded Krave Pure Eats, says he is selective about which stores he'll sell to, in an effort to distance his brand's bright, gender-neutral packaging from other jerkies.

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Krave offers a jerky of the month club, is available in retail stores in about 40 states, and comes to us from one of the members of the famed Sebastiani wine family in Sonoma.

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