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...that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine. As a result, although the U.S. ranks sixth among the world's wine-producing nations, it is 29th in terms of wine consumption...
...quart or two of ceremonial champagne, at least 25 clean shirts, eye contact with nearly a million people and G.I. turkey in the Saudi desert (twice) -- came home to roost (certainly not rest) for the weekend. He sent his laundry out, had Air Force One fueled again (53,611 gal.) and got ready to head for Mexico this week...
...month shipped Operation Desert Shield three state-of- , the-art water-purification units with a total value of nearly $1 million. Each of the mobile units, which use a process called reverse osmosis to convert salt water or contaminated water to drinking water, can produce up to 3,000 gal. per hour under battlefield conditions. Together the units can meet the needs of 10,000 troops...
What are round and orange, wear toothy grins and sit in the middle of front + lawns across the U.S.? No, not pumpkins. They're Stuff-A-Pumpkins, giant plastic leaf bags with a jack-o'-lantern design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal. monsters seem large enough to devour a small child. A creation of Connecticut-based Sun Hill Industries, the Stuff-A-Pumpkin (retail price: $3.98) is flying off the shelves of K mart, Wal-Mart and other bargain behemoths, suddenly making the childhood chore of leaf raking such a cool job that even...
Fuel prices have run up faster than ever before. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, jet-fuel prices more than doubled, to $1.46 per gal., before settling last week at $1.04. The U.S. airline industry consumes at least 15 billion gallons of jet fuel annually, which means that every 1 cents increase in fuel prices will increase total operating costs by $150 million. The results are devastating. U.S. carriers expect to lose $1.2 billion during the October to December period alone, more than the industry has ever lost in an entire year. Aiming to ride out the crisis, airlines are slashing costs...