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...transform the way vines are planted and how wine is marketed, recognizing that too much of the E.U.'s $1.8 billion annual wine budget goes to compensate farmers for producing wine no one wants to drink. That wine is either destroyed, or - at additional cost - transformed into industrial alcohol...
...have been pouring taxpayers' money into distillation schemes [to convert unsold wine to industrial alcohol] while New World wine-producers have been running rings round us," E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said last week. "Clearly, we must take a different approach to helping Europe's excellent wines punch their weight around the world more consistently...
...Lucille's customers are Egyptians, who appreciate that she makes a point of not serving alcohol or pork and observing halal meat-slaughtering practices. "I haven't tried burgers in the U.S., but this is the best one in Egypt," Randy Banna, a 25-year-old Cairene, agreed when I leaned over from my table to ask how he liked his cheeseburger. "It's not fast-food, where they cook it fast and you eat it fast. Here it's totally different." The culture clashes at Lucille's tend to be comical: Egyptian customers had a hard time understanding that...
Shortly after his appointment as College dean, Gross announced some of his major priorities, including driving through the curricular review and addressing concerns over alcohol use by offering students more social opportunities and spaces...
...Hall, a peer advising program, a delay in concentration choice, and a secondary-field program are all in place, and students now can congregate in a student organizations center, a women's center, the Lamont Library Café, freshman common rooms, and even an undergraduate pub. Additionally, offices for alcohol safety and sexual assault prevention exist on campus to serve students, and changes to the student handbook will give administrators the power to punish student group leaders involved in hazing beginning this fall...