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...stated purpose to celebrate the 850th anniversary on Saturday of the shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary. "My voyage is not political," the pontiff told reporters just before takeoff. "I want to join in with other faithful in this act of unity that such a journey brings." Nevertheless, Austrian Catholics will be looking to their pontiff for words of encouragement as the nation's Church continues to recover from a sex abuse scandal in the 1990s in which the then Archbishop of Vienna Hans Wilhelm Groer was forced to resigned under allegations that he himself had been a perpetrator. Indeed...
...competition was not without its controversy or hard feelings. According to the Agence France-Presse news wire, Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer had sharp words about the level of financial firepower Russia had focused on their efforts. "Salzburg didn't stand a chance," he said. "It was an economic and political powerplay...which indicates the way they want to go from now on, and this is wrong for the sport and for the IOC and Olympic Movement...
...cheesy as that sounds, he sells me. We're sitting in a restaurant in San Francisco, drinking an Austrian white that "feels like it's taking our tongue apart with a switchblade," but in a good way, and he's talking faster than I can write, touching my knee and dropping in my first name at key points, and before you know it, I want to drink whites at room temperature so I can really taste them, and hell, yes, I want to get my mom to try something other than Yellow Tail, and goddam, I do want to break...
...never tried an energy drink before. So, when offered a Power Horse on my first day as an intern, I should have just said no. At the meeting, the writers immediately offered the interns cans of the potent drink. “It’s like this Austrian energy drink 5 times the power of Red Bull, and totally illegal in the United States,” they said, gesturing to the stacked cases. We all dutifully grabbed a heavy...
...Power Horse is only the latest advancement in energy drinks, which originated in1960’s Japan. Called genki drinks, their purpose was to help workers stay awake on the job to increase productivity. An Austrian created Red Bull, building the energy drink niche in the U.S. Marketers removed emphasis from the working stiff and created a more frivolous image. Power Horse, whose potency claims are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), distances itself from the party mindset. The press release states, “The drink’s very appearance (a stocky and powerful...