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...each other, laughing wildly on the sidewalk; their cars parked in a line that stretches from one side of the Tigris River to the other. In a country now in its fifth year of war, the sight may be unexpected. But perhaps more startling is what they're drinking: beer. Local residents say that sort of activity hasn't occurred here in public since the first year of the war - now looked upon nostalgically as the year before life really...
...week ago, a car bomb hit Harithiya, the same neighborhood where tonight the boys played soccer. The young men drinking beer on the Jadriya bridge were targeted in 2004 by religious extremists. Now they're back, but their presence is less an indication of improved safety than it is of the fatalistic attitudes now so prevalent among Iraq's youth, says one resident...
...Anheuser-Busch is known around town, is not technically the biggest firm left standing; that honor goes to industrial conglomerate Emerson Electric. But it is certainly the most famous, an iconic American brand backed by one of the largest advertising budgets on earth. Nearly half of all American beer is brewed by A-B. Every time a radio ad for Bud or Bud Light ends with the words "St. Louis, Missouri," it's a shot in the arm for the hometown, which is why more than 45,000 people, including the mayor of St. Louis and the governor of Missouri...
...Anheuser-Busch is the legacy of an enterprising German immigrant named Adolphus Busch, who married the daughter of a middling brewer, Eberhard Anheuser, in 1861. Brewing the blond and foamy lager of his native land and seizing on the science of pasteurization, Busch "brought bottled beer to the masses," in the words of biographers Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey. At Busch's death in 1913, A-B was the biggest beermaker in the country - a distinction the company never relinquished, despite a near death experience during Prohibition...
...local charity last year alone. Tours of the brewery are among the city's most popular tourist attractions, and every year hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoy the grounds of the family's estate, Grant's Farm, where children ogle the exotic menagerie while their parents sip free beer...