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...Thomas Jefferson, who knew well the wines of France and Italy, dreamed of growing great vintages in Virginia To no avail. European vines, planted by Italian workers at his estate near Charlottesville, soon succumbed to insects and disease. For almost two centuries it was considered impossible to raise in the East South or Midwest-anywhere save California-any vine but the American Vitis labmsca, whose fermented grapes have an acid, musky, "foxy" flavor...
...Jefferson's old acreage Vitis vinifera, the noble vine of Europe is being grown. These vines and French-American hybrids, crossbreeds developed for more changeable climes, are also being cultivated in at least 27 other states and yielding serious table wines They are not, and never will be, Lafites or Corons but they are at least comparable to the local wines of France, and at best may prove in time to be far superior...
...Jefferson's vision is being realized through science: the adaptation of distinguished vines that will survive cold climates and disease-and through art; the translation of grapes into wine. Eminent wine scientists, from Emile Peynaud of Bordeaux to Maynard Amerine of the University of California, have paved the way. At great expense and with the priestly dedication that produced the vintages of Europe, their test tubes are being translated into bottles by a new breed of American winemaker...
...accompanied by some local inflammation. Some doctors also implicate bodily chemicals, notably histamine and serotonin. Investigators at Baylor University have even reported that over a prolonged period of time migraines may damage some brain cells?apparently without any noticeable mental impairment. Migraine sufferers have included such intellectual stalwarts as Jefferson, Freud, Nietzsche and Darwin. Lewis Carroll is thought to have conceived the more bizarre scenes in his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland during the hallucinatory "auras"?flashing of lights before the eyes ?that often precede the headaches...
Theodosius, who graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., and St. Vladimir's, the church's growing seminary in Crestwood, N.Y., is not fluent in Russian. An open, easy man, whose main passions besides the church are music, gardening and cars, he is more a pastoral than an intellectual churchman. Among other assignments, he revived once-flagging Orthodox parishes in Alaska, where the Russian mother church set up its first North American outpost in the 18th century...