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...side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along the banks of the Douro River, from its mouth on the Atlantic all the way up to the Spanish border. To this day, most of the wine warehouses, called caves do vinho do porto (lodges), in Vila Nova de Gaia across from the city of Porto are run by three big companies from both nations. Sogrape owns several old vintners, such as Ferreira and Sandeman. Real Companhia Velha makes Royal Oporto. British giant Symington remains family owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porto: History by the Glass | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder do porto (lodges) in Vila Nova de Gaia across from the city of Porto are run by three big companies from both nations. Sogrape owns several old vintners like Ferreira and Sandeman. Real Companhia Velha makes Royal Oporto. British giant Symington remains family owned. Indeed, some of the wine's most passionate defenders have come from Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History by the Glass | 6/2/2004 | See Source »

With the closing of the popular Gaia Juices bar in Loker Commons, Harvard summer school students must venture outside the Yard to find a cold blast of refreshment after their grueling classes...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Icy Treats Beat Summer Heat | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Mayer acknowledges the slightly higher price of drinks like Fresh Samantha, or the fresh-squeezed jucies sold at HDS's Cafe Gaia in Loker Commons, but he says students seem willing to accept the trade...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Juice Craze | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

...original Gaia was a femme fatale. Hesiod, a Greek from the 6th century B.C., tells her lurid tale in The Theogony. Born of the state of chaos, Gaia the Earth immaculately conceived her first brood of children, among which was the Sky, Uranus. Earth and Sky "united," giving birth to the Titans, the last of whom was Chronos, Time. Feisty Chronos, seeking to overthrow his father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded...

Author: By V.p. DE Menil, | Title: NAME DROPPING | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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