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Some of the big champagne houses are looking a little farther north for their next harvest--across the English Channel. Climate change has raised the average temperature in Champagne during the growing season 2.2şF (1.2şC) over the past 50 years, altering the cool temperatures that give balance to the champagne produced there, says Gregory Jones, a climatologist at Southern Oregon University. "With such temperatures you could make a Burgundy or Bordeaux, rather than champagne," he says. Today southern England has roughly the same climate that Champagne did 25 years ago--and the same chalky soil in those famous...
...Couture, it is true, is an art form—a channel for the transmission of culture. As is the case with aesthetics in general, its refined function is expression, a means by which an individual projects inner feeling and character. As such, fashion is a sensibility with which it is important to stay in tune. However, it seems that increasingly fewer individuals outside of the elite circles dictate or are even truly conscious of their tastes. In the practical, profit-driven implementation of retail and commercialization, fashion is becoming an increasingly supply-side phenomenon that creates its own inevitable...
...enemy of Turkey, they're an enemy of Iraq, and they're an enemy of the United States. We have talked about how we can work together to protect ourselves from the PKK." Bush said he had shared intelligence on the PKK with Erdogan, and opened a direct channel between Turkey's number two military official and the top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. The President also spoke of cutting off the money flow to the PKK from within Iraq. Not bad for a country that supposedly has unsteady relations with...
Benjamin R. Eisler ’08 is trying to increase voter turnout by hosting a half-hour television program on Channel 9 on Tuesday nights. In addition to the show, “Inside City Council,” which has run since September, Eisler hosted a television debate among 12 of the candidates. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...would say,"get your popcorn ready" for Pats-Colts. And when you see another Kobe/A-Rod update on ESPN? Flip the channel to the NFL, college football, America's Next Top Model, anything else. When superstar athletes make more news off the field (or court) than on it, you know it's time to get your eye back on the ball...