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...Whitney's cotton gin makes possible the rise of the antebellum South...
Animal foods? Sure, I'll cut out those trashburgers. Booze? What, and risk a clear view of reality? O.K., O.K., I'll cut down, or maybe just switch to a better brand of gin. But coffee? Can't do it. I interviewed Weil a few years ago and found him bright, overflowing with ideas and not at all dogmatic. So when he suggested I might deal with my low-level migraine attacks by taking an herb called feverfew and by giving up coffee, I was willing to try. The feverfew worked--it dilates blood vessels--but the coffee thing didn...
...invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death by a doctor. "His last evening at home was so cozy," his wife said. "Frans gave himself another quarter of an hour: 'One last gin and tonic and a cigarette, then we'll get down to work...
...many packaged-goods makers would get excited over a 0.3% increase in sales, but for the liquor industry it's something to celebrate, albeit quietly. Yes, the figures say Americans increased consumption of whiskey, gin and other distilled spirits ever so slightly last year, breaking a 15-year decline. Some 135 million cases of the stuff went down, according to Impact, an industry trade journal. "With the economy being fairly buoyant, people are in a position to indulge themselves more," says Jamie Prusak, vice president of Schieffelin & Somerset, a liquor distributor. The increase also reflects--note all those lighted cigars...
...loan from my dad. My husband was already looking around for other work." Manuel Valdez, 43, and his wife Susie, 37, were close to losing Susie's Fish & Grill, which the couple sank their life savings into only five months before. Manuel, who had stopped by the cotton gin (owned by the Terrys, of course) for a cup of coffee and joined the lottery pool on a lark, says they could not have held out much longer. "This month I really didn't even want to come to work," he says. "I opened the checkbook, and we were down...