Word: brewer
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...found widely in nature--and in coffee beans. Diterpenes are known to raise homocysteine levels, and the paper filters used in coffee machines are usually fine enough to catch them. Some coffee roasters prepare their beans with processes that remove some of the offending diterpenes. Check with your favorite brewer for details...
...stars are an endangered species," complains Wini Brewer, a Morongo Valley, Calif., artist who purchased five acres of desert property for its starry vista in 1996 but is now mired in squabbles with the owners of what she considers grossly over-lit homes and businesses. "Ruining the sky," she says, "is no different from ruining the view of Yosemite...
...only last week that a Web-security company alerted eUniverse to the existence of the site, which was quickly shut down. By then, though, 25,000 credit-card numbers had been given away. "Of the card numbers the FBI pulled off the site," says eUniverse vice president Brett Brewer, "a majority were ones that had been used at CD Universe...
...look who's behind the wheel now. The new owner of the world's most admired beer is South African Breweries, which last October bought a controlling interest in Pilsner Urquell and Radegast, the Czech Republic's two top brewers, from investment bank Nomura International in a $321 million deal. With it, SAB got the right to acquire Nomura's remaining stake by June 30, 2001, for $308 million. That makes SAB Central Europe's biggest brewer and vaults it into third spot worldwide, after Anheuser-Busch of the U.S. and Heineken of the Netherlands...
...takes a long time to build a brand presence in a mature market. John Wakely, managing director of Lehman Brothers' London office, notes that it took Heineken 30 years to establish itself in the U.S. One way to speed things up would be to buy a Western Europe brewer. There is speculation that SAB is eyeing Kronenbourg, part of French food giant Danone...