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...think Americans are getting more diversity of tastes when it comes to wine? Yes. I hope at some level it's a little bit of my show, but mainly I think it's the Internet itself. Wine critics like Robert Parker say, "Drink big cabernets!" But they are not the only voices. People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, Soave, and say, "Oh, O.K., cool...
...carbon dioxide. This cold, abstract, technical problem is so emotionally immediate in our lives, and we don't tend to recognize that - it's almost too obvious. I spent 10 years or so reporting on energy and the environment: criticizing, analyzing, examining our failure to act on a federal level. And then I began to realize that on a personal level, I was implicated in these problems far more than I ever realized. I took this tour around my office to look at how many fossil-fuel by-products were cluttering my life. It was pretty much everything: what...
...adamant scientists wrote a letter to Science arguing that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases should not to continue with the trial. "We seriously question whether it is sensible now to conduct a ... trial that, in our opinion, is no more likely to generate a meaningful level of protection against infection or disease," they wrote...
...What surprised you about the communities you spent time in? I was caught off-guard by the level of hostility to immigration reform in many of these communities and by how concerned many are by taxes - they believe taxes are too high. But I was also caught off-guard by how pleasant an experience it turned out to be, the personable warmth that greeted me in many cases...
...Another winner is gold, which breached the $1,000 level in September as the dollar started to weaken and then hit three record highs after the Australian announcement, ending the week at $1,049. Gold is still regarded as a hedge against a weak dollar and also against inflation. No one is listening to Warren Buffett, who describes the metal as having no utility, something that gets dug out of the ground, melted down and then buried again in another hole guarded by people who are paid to do the job. "Anyone watching from Mars," says the Sage of Omaha...