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...sales-and-export executive with Fullers Brewery and Hall as a strategist with Diageo - before setting up their new independent distillery label, Sipsmith. Their knowledge of the drinks business, combined with a passion for distillation, helped them spot a niche in the U.K. market for microdistilleries producing small-batch artisanal spirits. "We wanted to bring back the art of handcrafted spiritmaking," says Galsworthy. "So we developed a business plan, quit our jobs, sold our houses and went on the hunt for the first distiller's license granted in London in a generation." (See 10 things to do in London...
...attempt to tamp down the scandal, the British and Scottish governments published a batch of letters online on Sept. 1 detailing the discussions over how to handle al-Megrahi. The letters date back to June 2007, when British oil companies were negotiating huge new deals in Libya. In February 2008, British Justice Minister Jack Straw wrote to Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, that "developing a strong relationship with Libya ... is good for the U.K.," adding that Libya "is one of only two countries to have ever voluntarily and transparently dismantled its weapons of mass destruction program...
...first batch of numbers instilling hope that we've arrived at a bottom shows that house prices are beginning to creep back up. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 cities saw a 1.4% gain between May and June. That's only the second time the index has risen since the summer of 2006 (the other time was the month before). Once you adjust the data for seasonality - the fact that houses tend to sell for more money in the warmer months - the increase in July was actually the first since May 2006. Home-price data from...
...proved to be mild, causing only 1,200 deaths among 160,000 confirmed cases. Hay says his team is watching for several changes in the virus' genome that could make the pandemic more severe. The first involves the H1N1 vaccine that is currently in production. The batch is based on a recipe that Hay's team helped put together in April. As it takes six months to produce a vaccine, virologists must be on the lookout for "antigenic drift" - changes in the virus that would let it escape the immune responses induced by the vaccine. (Because the flu virus...
...This Census cycle also has its own batch of groups pushing for less counting, not more. A handful of Hispanic advocates are calling for illegal immigrants to boycott the Census, a threat meant as a bargaining chip to force more meaningful immigration reform. Other Hispanic groups are nonplussed by the tactic, considering how much federal funding is pegged to the count; the head of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials has called the move "well intended but misguided and ultimately irresponsible." (The Census doesn't ask whether a person is living in the U.S. legally, since the Constitution says...