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...drama, the Fed's Beige Book report revealed that business was weakening everywhere, prompting the Dow to regurgitate 700 points. GM is shutting plants earlier than anticipated, idling 2,800 workers; PepsiCo, which reported falling sales in the U.S., is chopping 3,300 jobs worldwide. Demand for Samsung's DRAM chips is dropping. The retailer Linens'n Things is closing its remaining 371 stores, eliminating 17,000 jobs. The NBA is laying off 80 people, citing slower ticket sales...
...first stop for many visitors to Edinburgh is a Scotch whisky tasting, the better to immerse oneself in the Scottish spirit. But for a wee dram of something equally warming, stroll down to PLAISIR DU CHOCOLAT, about a 15-minute walk from Edinburgh Castle. The opulent Art Nouveau café at 251 Canongate offers up chocolate as it was meant to be: rich, flavorful and complex. Founder and master chocolatier Bertrand Espouy treats chocolate as sommeliers would wine, with an emphasis on origin, terroir and manufacture. The café window features a mouthwatering display of exquisite house-made pastries...
...centers, complete with interactive exhibits and branded merchandise for sale - but it can be just as much[an error occurred while processing this directive] fun to turn up at a distillery where no concessions are made to visitors beyond an impromptu tour of the production facilities and a quick dram with the stillman. Either way, you'll have plenty of opportunities to marvel at how three ingredients - malted barley, water and yeast - can come together in endless variations of smoothness and flavor, according to each distillery's microclimate, water source and manufacturing secrets. Here are some of our favorite sources...
...PLEADED GUILTY. SUN WOO LEE, YEONGHO KANG and YOUNG WOO LEE, executives at South Korea's Samsung Electronics; to their role in fixing prices for DRAM electronic chips; in San Francisco. The U.S. Justice Department charges that from 1999 to 2002 Samsung and three other companies colluded to set artificially high prices for the chips, used in computers and mobile phones. The three were sentenced to prison terms of up to eight months and will pay fines of $250,000 each. The ongoing investigation has resulted in more than $731 million in criminal fines...
...breakthrough? "I'm a late starter," says Stuart Murdoch, the band's 37-year-old lead singer and chief songwriter, from a corner table in Uisge Beatha (Scots Gaelic for water of life from which the word whisky derives) in Glasgow's West End. He's nursing a rare dram, and only a stuffed stag's head on the wall stares in our direction. But his days of anonymity may be numbered. Murdoch is talking enthusiastically about recording with producer Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air) in Los Angeles between games of football with Robbie Williams and other Brit expats. "We think...