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Whole Foods Market branched out to whole-life retailing last fall, adding a shop in West Hollywood specializing in ecofriendly clothing and housewares to its chain of 180 grocery stores. * British model Elizabeth Hurley, the mother of a three-year-old boy, is developing a line of organic baby foods. * The Nike Considered hiking boot, one of the company's new shoes manufactured with less wasteful and toxic processes, was a 2005 "gold" winner at the Industrial Designers Society of America's prestigious awards. * The Christian Science Monitor has anointed the likely buyers of such boots—young urban professionals with a green bent—as "GUPPYS."