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...global players are poised to take over the German beer market, why haven't any German brewers become global players? Bavarian monks formalized and perfected the art of brewing in the Middle Ages. Yet even a German giant like Holsten is dwarfed by Heineken - which produced 11 billion liters in 2002 and is awaiting regulatory approval for its purchase of Austria's 2.6 billion-liter-per-year BBAG brewery for €1.9 billion. Shackleton explains that when Dutch and Belgian brewers began seeing their local markets shrink in the late 1980s, they responded by beefing up their exports, hammering...
...than half the kids passed the test, suffering none of the common allergy symptoms, such as hives, vomiting or swelling of the face and lips. The study, published in this month's Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, looked at children with low levels (5 kilounits or less per liter of blood) of peanut-specific IgE--the antibodies that cause allergic reactions--and found that the lower the levels, the more likely the children were to outgrow their peanut sensitivities. These antibodies can be measured with widely available blood tests, and the study's authors recommend that peanut-intolerant kids...
Maybe too thrilling. Burroughs quickly became a high-functioning alcoholic who downed a liter of Dewar's a night and sprayed Donna Karan for Men on his tongue to hide the smell at work. "To this day," he writes in Dry, his art director at the ad firm "has never forgiven me for calling one of our clients at home at two in the morning and initiating phone sex." You can see why she packed him off to rehab. Burroughs spent a month at an all-gay clinic in Minnesota...
...empty. "It's there, but it's well hidden," a second Defense official insists. "It will take time to discover and verify because they took time--and effort--to hide it." Some officials now question whether huge stockpiles will ever be found: it's easy to hide a liter of anthrax, but not the factory-size facility needed to produce...
They do, however, in restaurants. Soft drinks are now delivered in one-liter cups, observes Judith Stern, vice president of the American Obesity Association. Even the venerable Joy of Cooking has capitulated to the trend; recipes that used to provide meals for six now feed only four. So cheap are carbohydrates and fats that supersizing costs the food industry next to nothing...