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...Milosevic. The dismissals are meant to secure the military's loyalty to the democratic government that succeeded Milosevic in 2000. As many as 200 lower officers may be fired as well, as the country seeks to gain NATO membership. Homeward Bound SAUDI ARABIA Five Britons, a Canadian and a Belgian convicted of a series of car bombings in Riyadh, in which one British citizen was killed and four other people injured in 2000, were released from a Saudi prison and deported to the U.K. The men, two of whom had been sentenced to death by beheading, were granted royal clemency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 8/10/2003 | See Source »

...freshly terraced, irrigated by black plastic hoses and dotted with iridescent green cannabis. Villa Garcia peers down the path. Is that a black bear--a common local species--emerging from the morning mist? Suddenly he sees the rangers and dashes off through the brambles. But the police dog, a Belgian Malinois, catches up quickly, sinking its teeth into Villa Garcia's arm. Two rangers wrestle him to the ground and handcuff him. "We're good at jungle warfare," says Laura Mark, a Forest Service investigator, as she prepares to question the suspect. "We're the ninjas of the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busted! | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...Middle Ages. Yet even a German giant like Holsten is dwarfed by Heineken - which produced 11 billion liters in 2002 and is awaiting regulatory approval for its purchase of Austria's 2.6 billion-liter-per-year BBAG brewery for €1.9 billion. Shackleton explains that when Dutch and Belgian brewers began seeing their local markets shrink in the late 1980s, they responded by beefing up their exports, hammering the "premium" theme and buying up other breweries. German brewers, by contrast, were protected by the beer purity laws - which lost their teeth when the European Court declared them protectionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Beer Goes Flat | 8/3/2003 | See Source »

...beach party in Spain or tune into Belgian radio, and you're likely to hear one word: "Chihuahua!" This is not a forlorn pet owner summoning his tiny, unimaginatively named dog. It is the sound of marketing, the remix of an old mambo song that has gone from TV spot to hit single and the word on millions of lips. And it's all brought to you by Coca-Cola - not that you'd know from listening to the song. In a cluttered marketplace, advertisers need to be different. Traditional ads repeating a brand name 30 times in 30 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stealthy Sell | 8/3/2003 | See Source »

...Americans' ice cream palates go gourmet, even traditional formulations are taking on a more sophisticated edge. Neuhaus, the Belgian chocolatier, has brought its superpremium ice cream to the U.S. for the first time, in the form of Snobinettes Glace, which are chocolate shells filled with ultrarich vanilla, coffee or chocolate ice cream. An ice cream and sorbet maker in Dallas called Out of a Flower uses herbs, teas and edible flowers to create its exotic flavors, which include Tequila & Cilantro, Rosemary & Black Peppercorn and Texas Goat Fromage Blanc & Roasted Hazelnuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extreme Ice Cream | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

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