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GRAPE CHIC At the Napa Valley Reserve, amateurs blend their own wines, paying a membership deposit of $135,000 for the right to harvest, crush and bottle top grapes...
...market, especially in hot coastal areas, is a bubble just as ripe for popping. "We've had a more than doubling of housing prices in the past three years here in Southern California, for instance, and there's no fundamental driving it," he says. "There isn't some big crush of people coming to California. That's ridiculous...
...While the dust was still in the air over Manhattan after the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush was assembling a coalition to invade Afghanistan and crush the Taliban, who had provided sanctuary to the terrorists of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. A key element of Australia's contribution to that coalition - a role known as Operation Slipper - was the legendary Special Air Service Regiment. Based in Perth, the regiment is the Australian Army's most highly trained and best equipped unit. It's said to cost more than $A1 million to train...
...well in New York City and opens at the Donmar Warehouse on May 31 before moving to Bristol and Salford) with British actor Ben Chaplin in the lead as a man who comes back to his small-town home to break up the interracial marriage of his high school crush. "I have thought that, if somebody takes it the wrong way, I could get a brick to the back of the head as I'm leaving the stage door," says Chaplin, who found fame in Hollywood films The Truth About Cats & Dogs and Birthday Girl. "But Neil's an iconoclast...
...second marriage over, she shares her home with four dogs, which pad along after her like an obedient pack. Many authors write for a few hours in the morning, but Scottoline works throughout the day and into the night, with breaks for daytime television ("Oprah is my girl crush," she gushes). She is a peripatetic writer, moving among four home computers...