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Although the U.S. is the fourth largest producer in the world, most Americans are still uncomfortable with wine. The nation ranks No. 34 internationally in terms of per capita consumption. The French, No. 2, drink more than six times as much, according to Adams Beverage Group, an industry research group. (Natives of tiny Luxembourg top the list.) MacNeil, 50, who has been writing about wine for 25 years, says the U.S. is still developing its own approach to wine. "We aren't France, with its cafés where you hang out and sip wine. Nor do we like the rather...
...coffee drinkers in the U.S. over a period of 18 years, doctors found that men who drank at least six cups a day were half as likely to develop diabetes, while women cut their risk 30%. In a separate study in Finland, which boasts the world's highest per capita coffee consumption, people who drank three to four cups of coffee a day had an almost 30% lower risk of diabetes, and serious caffeine users (more than 10 cups a day) cut their risk 60%. It's not clear whether the coffee was directly responsible for the lower diabetes rates...
...step is into uncharted territory. Now, with the military component reduced to a mere 78 personnel, and a reborn police force under the close watch of foreign advisers, the mission's youthful bureaucrats are taking charge of battered economic and development institutions. The economy has gone steadily backward: per-capita income has fallen 50% since independence in 1978. The ethnic tensions and brutality of 1998-2003 masked a chronic illness in Solomon Islands, for which there is no off-the-shelf cure. "Our leaders have not lived up to the expectations of the people that have put them into power...
...these places so safe? No, not only because they are lacking in sites particularly attractive to terrorists. These five states also have the highest per capita spending allocation for domestic security funds from the Department of Homeland Security. And according to a recent report in the New York Times, some of these places have so much money they don’t know what to do with...
WILLIAM BAUMOL: There is a very clear possibility that the common man and woman's view is right: that [economic] catch-up in China may lead to a lower level and rate of growth of GDP per capita in the U.S. I am not advocating tariffs. We are so much richer than China that it may be desirable for us to make a modest sacrifice to raise their standards of living. But better still is for us to take measures that will be advantageous both to China and to us. It is obscene for us to ignore the effects...