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...fibrous plant is good for what ales you. It is also controversial. The hemp used in the beer has a very low narcotic content, but because the plant is of the same species as marijuana some governments prohibit its cultivation. In other countries laws are slowly changing, allowing the import of the beer and other drinks and foods containing hemp extracts, provided that the percentage of thc - the ingredient responsible for the "high" - remains within the 0.2% limit imposed by the European Union in 2002. Now several small European breweries are capitalizing on the more liberal attitudes. One, the Genuine...
...Staff of the Army--Marshall was chosen again as a man of peace: the Secretary of State who conceived the Marshall Plan, which promised to underwrite the economic recovery of postwar Europe's democracies. Through his bold scheme, said TIME, "the U.S. people, not quite realizing the full import of their act ... took upon their shoulders the leadership of the world...
...capacity to make new illicit weapons after the inspectors go home. That means Iraq also has to report on thousands of so-called dual-use facilities such as paint factories, pesticide plants, hospitals and distilleries, which could conceivably be involved in making weapons, along with material-procurement networks and import lists. U.S. officials say a misleading or incomplete report will not trigger instant military action, since they want inspections to go on to document a convincing pattern of misbehavior before they act against Iraq...
...language, or the Germans with their blood, Europeans tend to be militant about protecting their “purity” from outside contamination. Most recently, the European Union (E.U.) has become obsessed with the “genetic purity” of its food, refusing to allow the import of genetically modified food from the U.S. or other countries. This policy has not only been the source of an unseemly spat with the U.S., but has also contributed to the starvation of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa...
...domestic threat of Islamist terrorism, and obviously the SCUDs have little use in that battle. Despite recent rapprochement, Yemen has long had a tense relations with its northern neighbor, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh will share Washington's dismay at the news that the government in Yemen is trying to import medium-range missiles from North Korea...