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...have a terroir and microclimate like Waiheke. An island 35-minutes from Auckland by ferry, Waiheke is home to vineyards situated on clay soil mixed with volcanic rock, giving grapes a wonderful consistency (and particularly smooth tannins to Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot). Due to its position in the Hauraki Gulf, the island also experiences a warmer climate than Auckland, lengthening the critical ripening season. Then there's simple luck: Waiheke experienced exceptionally sunny weather from January 2005 through till harvest. "Abundant sunshine and the virtual absence of rainfall translated into small, thick-skinned berries, concentrated flavors and significant, ripe tannins...
...along the Gulf Coast, construction is driving the post-Katrina economic recovery, but the biggest and boldest bets in Mississippi are on gambling. Eight casinos are now open for business compared to 12 prior to Katrina, with more than 50,000 people employed either directly or in a support role. "By the end of this calendar year, the numbers will be pretty much where they were before Katrina," boasts Jerry St. P?, head of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. The gaming haul has certainly helped the revival. In January, the three casinos up and running reported astonishing revenues - 65% of what...
...White is one of those, driving a now familiar road between a temporary base in Houston and his shattered ancestral home in New Orleans, when the anguish pours out of him like the summer Gulf Coast rainstorm he is navigating. "The music of New Orleans you hear in the language, the rhythm in the way we walk, the way we gesture. The smells of the food, the way people sit on the stoop, the looks on the faces of the old people as they tell stories, the eccentricities of the way they dress," White said. "But you smell that smell...
Once in Congress, she was embraced especially by liberal Democrats. She opposed the Gulf War and in a 1996 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle said, "I pride myself in being called a liberal" and "I don't consider myself a moderate." In 2001, on the strength of the votes of party progressives, Pelosi won an intense battle with Maryland's Steny Hoyer, who is more centrist, to be the No. 2 Democrat in the House. A year later she defeated another moderate, Martin Frost of Texas, to become the party's leader in the chamber...
...Year After Katrina Recovery continues, storms brew As President Bush prepared to mark this week's first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a visit to the still scarred Gulf Coast, menacing storms named Debby and Ernesto whirled...