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...shifts, largely because global wine consumption has been growing, up about 10% in the last decade to 240 million hL. But now so many people have got into the winemaking business that the world is awash in far too much of the stuff. In 2004, worldwide production hit its highest level in 20 years, almost 300 million hL, or 15% higher than the previous year. And it's not just producers like Jean Charles who are hurting. The glut is hitting producers everywhere, particularly in Australia, where a local success story has quickly soured. According to estimates by the Australian...
...having proved Poincaré was taken seriously at its outset only because Perelman was already an established mathematician. Such attention would not be accorded to a novice, whose work would be met with skepticism. This hierarchy is a huge incentive for serious scientists to submit only preprints of the highest caliber and for community denizens not to ruin their reputes by publishing false or misleading information.Each of these projects also has an efficient administrative system with which to stop attempts at sabotage, and it is all but impossible for any mischief to cause harm before it is spotted and thwarted...
Clinton would not be the first to have held the highest office in the country and at an Ivy League university...
...been growing, up about 10% in the past decade, to 240 million hectoliters annually. But now there's a rude awakening. So many countries have got into the winemaking business like Turkey, China, Brazil--that the world is currently awash in the stuff. In 2004 worldwide production hit its highest level in 20 years, almost 300 million hectoliters, or 15% more than the previous year. The glut is hurting producers everywhere, particularly in Australia, which has surplus wine stocks that exceed a year's worth of exports. Many grape growers there simply let this year's crop...
...weather make the Himalayas a dangerous place for anyone. But for Tibetan refugees attempting to flee their Chinese-occupied homeland, the mountains can be even more perilous. On the morning of Sept. 30, more than 100 international climbers at a base camp on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain, watched as border guards from the Chinese People's Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says an American who watched the scene...