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People in the German border town of Passau probably don't think of themselves as champions of the euro. Yet this August they scored a victory for Europe's single currency. On a warm Friday afternoon, about 500 people drank beer, ate bratwurst and--for almost five hours--blocked a road into neighboring Austria. Their target: the high price of gasoline in Germany, which, thanks to taxes, is about 20% more expensive than in Austria. Every day an estimated 2,000 German motorists fill up at a BP station across the border in Austria--at the expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy: Carrying Its Weight | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...Thanks in part to an explosion of new flavored vodkas, U.S. consumption of the liquor has been on a steady rise over the past decade. At the same time, gin seems to have disappeared from the cocktail menu. Last year Americans drank nearly four times as much vodka as gin. To reverse the trend, some distillers have come up with a novel solution: make their drink taste less like gin. By lightening up on the juniper and amping up other flavors, they hope to make gin more palatable for a new generation?and woo vodka drinkers. Among the new brews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Tonic for Old Gins | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...shrugged it off and drank a couple glasses of Cristal, basking in my newfound hip hop star status. When the bill came, however, it was a different story. Arnaud suddenly hadn’t ordered the champagne and the Ray Charles look-a-like kept repeating “she ordered it” in French...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, | Title: French Toasted | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...shrugged it off and drank a couple glasses of Cristal, basking in my newfound hip hop star status. When the bill came, however, it was a different story. Arnaud suddenly hadn’t ordered the champagne and the Ray Charles look-a-like kept repeating “she ordered it” in French...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Toasted | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...slew of Harvard College Democrats heeded Antonin Scalia’s advice at last weekend’s ‘Early ’90s’ dance in Eliot House, sponsored by The Harvard Independent. The Dems drank away their sorrows after a disappointing week for the Kerry campaign—and made out like Al and Tipper. . . .Notably absent from the Indy party: Rivers Cuomo, who provided much of the evening’s soundtrack but did not reply to the organizers’ invitation. . . . Florida retirees got for free what Harvard Law School students...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Michael M. Grybaum, Sarah M. Seltzer, Zachary M. Seward, and Simon W. Vozick-levenson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly: The Week in Buzz | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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