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...country is flooded with unsold wine. And unlike France, which pays for unsold wine to be distilled into industrial alcohol, Australia has no government-subsidized buyer to bail wineries out. Mark McKenzie, executive director of the wine-grape growers trade group, says incomes for some growers have fallen 60% in the past two years. "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years," says Brian McGuigan, an industry veteran and founder of McGuigan Simeon Wines, the nation's second largest firm...
...auto-safety advocates--have helped push 45 states to adopt some form of graduated driver licensing, or GDL, which lengthens the waiting period before teens can obtain a full "go anywhere, anytime" driver's license. Slowing down the process has slowed down the accident rate. Per-capita crashes have fallen 23% among 16-year-old drivers in California since its strict GDL law was enacted in 1998, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reported in August. The state's late-night crashes were down 27%, and crashes with teen passengers were down 38%. Similar drops have occurred in other...
This reeks of Christian masochism at its worst. “I am an alcoholic” is the equivalent of “I am a sinner”—essentially portraying alcoholics as wretched, helpless, fallen creatures in need of the redeeming grace and guidance of a higher power...
Brief synopsis: singer Cee-lo Green—who along with producer Danger Mouse composes Gnarls Barkley—is the leader of an animated band of fleas. He’s fallen for a tall, blonde (human) bombshell in bobby socks and a yellow housedress. Having taken up residency on her retriever, the flea colony is forced to endure several trials for the sake of the head flea’s love. They’re rejected by the dog and assaulted by a vacuum cleaner before losing one of their number to a strip of fly tape...
...voiceover instead, giving Barron the opportunity to interact in real-time with another actor. Set designer Britt Caputo ’08, who is also a Crimson editor, created her best scenery for “Swan Song.” The scattered flowers, a wispy candle and a fallen curtain provided a haunting backdrop and added symbolic gravitas to Barron’s performance.Tony-award winning playwright Alan Bennett’s “Playing Sandwiches” is, in essence, a confession of a convicted pedophile named Wilfred. Williams could not have picked a more timely play...