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...Ahmadinejad's incendiary rhetoric may seem harmless enough now, but we should remember that Hitlers don't become Hitlers unless they are underestimated and appeased. The Adolf Hitler of 1933 was much smaller than the 1944 version. John Root, Grover Beach, Calif...
...behind him, sending him out in the world to do their dirty work, just as they send IEDs to Iraq to kill our soldiers. Ahmadinejad is the symbol of the very real poison emanating from Tehran. Symbols can be powerful and consequential and must be confronted. Leonard Schwartzburd, Berkeley, Calif...
...size notes or have a bit of Braille on each so that the blind can truly know what they are using. As more and more disabled move into the mainstream, it is up to us to make ordinary activities like bill recognition a reality for them. Eleanor Carter, Glendora, Calif...
...returns of about 10%. The demand has pushed the price per acre in Napa Valley's premium vineyards to between $200,000 and $300,000, up from between $125,000 and $180,000 in 2002, according to Tony Correia, president of Correia-Xavier Inc., a property appraiser in Fresno, Calif. Flush boomers are fueling demand, but their kids are guzzling wine at twice the rate of previous generations. So, by 2010, the U.S. will be drinking 3.8 billion bottles annually, making it the largest wine consumer in the world, predicts Silicon Valley Bank...
Even now, it's not all wine and roses. Vintage Wine Trust, a private REIT formed in San Rafael, Calif., in January 2005, is already looking at alternatives to taking the company public. Chief financial officer Tamara Fischer says finding buyout targets and persuading wineries to sell through sale-leasebacks have been tougher than expected. "We thought we'd have $300 million invested in 18 months," she says. "But at 28 months, we only have $165 million...