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...committee is a joint effort of IPPNW and the American affiliate of Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World), the French humanitarian relief organization, said Peter A. Zheutlin, a committee spokesperson...
...increased production of varietals, E. & J. Gallo, the nation's largest wine producer by far, earns considerable profit from Thunderbird, a cheap, fortified beverage that winos call "sneaky pete." And some corporate proprietors of prestigious wineries -- such as Britain's Grand Metropolitan or Hiram Walker, which owns Clos du Bois -- have major investments in hard liquor...
...world of litigation and erected the world's first combination law office and wienerama, which offers legal help to go every Wednesday night. And while his culinary canines range in price from a $1.15 plain Plaintiff Dog to a fully dressed $1.45 Judge Dog, Pearman's jurisprudence plat du jour is free of charge...
...muscadine grapes as early as 1565. In the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson scoured France for cuttings to replant at Monticello, his Virginia estate. (None took root, alas.) And Count Agoston Haraszthy, the patriarch of California vintners, started his first U.S. vineyard at what is now the Wollersheim winery in Prairie du Sac, Wis., in 1847. During the 19th century, wines from Ohio and Missouri won gold medals in European competitions, but thousands of vine-bearing acres in these and other states were plowed under during Prohibition...
Many Afrikaners are rethinking the very meaning of Blood River. "It has been seen as the victory of Christianity over savage Africans," says Max du Preez, editor of the influential Afrikaans weekly Vrye Weekblad. "Now it is seen rather as the point where Afrikaners became accepted as an African tribe and determined that they had a right to the soil." The survival of the nation will depend on whether Afrikaners fully accept that their black fellow countrymen share an equal right to the land of South Africa...