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...packaging company Tetra Pak, based in Switzerland, sold 1.6 billion wine containers globally. They're cheaper than bottles to make, and unopened they keep everyday wine fresh for a year. The time may be ripe for more convenient packaging. Last year the average U.S. adult consumed 2.68 gal. of table wine, an all-time high. Plus, with the recent success of the Sofia Mini can from Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery in nightclubs, it seems the younger crowd is open to bucking tradition. --By Kristin Kloberdanz
...turn off the spigot, last week exceeded a record $43 per bbl. That's not a high in real terms--oil reached nearly $80 per bbl. in inflation-adjusted dollars after the 1979 Iranian revolution. But it's enough to cause concern that pump prices, already up 50¢ per gal. this year, won't drop much soon. Consumers should get a small break in the fall, analysts say, when demand will ease as the summer driving season ends. Paul Horsnell, head of energy research at Barclays Capital in London, thinks the average U.S. gas price will settle at around...
...America’s insularity is warranted. But I do believe if Americans spent a bit more energy connecting with the rest of the world, we’d be in a better global standing than we are today. As for me, I’m a soccer gal...
...Broadway version by director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall, who also shepherded the 2000 revival, Eileen (now played by Jennifer Westfeldt, the star and co-writer of "Kissing Jessica Stein") is still the gal who gets pawed a lot and doesn't want it, and Ruth (Murphy) is still the big sister who isn't and does. I suspect that, if the show were done 30 or 50 years later, Ruth would be hungrier for women than for men. Even in this meticulous recreation of the 1953 show, there's a slightly lesbic undertone to the crooning and caressing in Ruth...
...country's ruling family, rather than the Kuwaiti national oil company, to fill some of its initial fuel orders. That deal is now the subject of an investigation by the Kuwaiti government and is also being looked into by the Pentagon, which says Altanmia's markup--about $1 per gal.--resulted in a $61 million overcharge. Halliburton says it used Altanmia only for fuel orders that had to be filled quickly, and then only with the approval of the U.S. military. Altanmia did not respond to a request for comment. Rex Wempen, co-founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...