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...ease of use is certainly a selling point, the new stopper's real advantage over cork closures is as a solution to TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole), the molecule that when present in cork is responsible for wine taint. "TCA is the great scourge of wine," says Peter Liem, the Épernay-based founder of champagneguide.net. "The problem is grave enough that it's becoming necessary to find either a solution to TCA in cork or an alternate closure...
...wine lovers to dump grand crus of all stripes down the drain. The problem is accentuated in sparkling wines like Champagne, whose bubbles only serve to volatilize the taint, making it all the more noticeable. Various studies suggest TCA affects anywhere from 1% to 7% of wines, but for Liem, arguing the exact percentage misses the point. "We are talking about a rate of failure - this renders wine undrinkable," he says. "What if 2% of all cars wouldn't start, or 2% of CDs wouldn't play? This just wouldn't be acceptable in other industries." (See pictures of whiskey...
...briefly held three of them hostage, forcing one to disrobe. Last year, farmers in Hung Yen province battled authorities trying to seize their land and resell it to developers. "Men, women and children fought back with their bare hands, with mud, with anything they could grab," said Nguyen Dinh Liem, who was working in his rice paddy when police arrived. "I had never seen that kind of thing before." (See pictures of the Vietnam-China border...
...Development (MARD) officials were reassuring the public as late as Jan. 7 that "there has been no sign the disease will affect human health"?even though 12 patients had already turned up at the National Institute of Pediatrics with an "unusual" virus, according to hospital director Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem. Even more worrying, it now appears that there were mass chicken die-offs in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam as early as last July, six months before the government officially acknowledged the emergence of avian flu. Giapfa Comfeed Vietnam Ltd., a poultry company in Vinh Phuc's Tam Duong...
...vacancies present two more opportunities for Lewis and University President Lawrence H. Summers to appoint a racial minority to the position of master—something that has only happened twice in Harvard history. Former Dunster House Master Karel Liem, who left his position in 2001, was the last professor of color to serve as master, and he and others have called on Lewis to diversify the masters’ ranks...