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France has earned a reputation for stubborn arrogance in the wine world for boasting of its inimitable terroirs and millennia-old viticultural traditions, while slapping lawsuits on any upstart foreign wine maker who dares to label his tipple champagne or chablis...
...Although Kiwi Cuvée is sold legally in European supermarkets, the tribunal ruled last October that the wine maker, Lacheteau, could not market it under that name in Australia because consumers would wrongly believe it was made in New Zealand. The ruling was hailed by the New Zealand Winegrowers Association, which had brought the complaint to the board. But the indignation of the Kiwis has lessened in recent days after a New Zealand blogger highlighted the apparently little-publicized fact that the cuvée is actually made for Lacheteau by a New Zealand wine maker, Rhyan Wardman. "Kiwi...
...apply his brushstrokes to a series of fond character studies. On the palette for Rohmer's prime romantic comedies - he called them "moral tales" - were the cheery pastels of a mythical France where it rarely rains and the sun can make any improvised couple feel warmer. Rohmer was no maker of masterpieces; those require a larger canvas. His films were portraits. They were also essays. Rohmer analyzed what he adored. He could be thought of as a more intellectual John Hughes - not that Rohmer peppered his script with jokes, but both writer-directors often addressed, with a scientist's fascination...
...fact, Procter & Gamble, the $79 billion consumer-goods giant, is even taking a bet on the blades. The maker of mass-market products such as Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and Ivory soap purchased the Art of Shaving in June for an undisclosed sum. P&G's move surprised some analysts, as it represented the company's first real foray into retail, which has struggled during the downturn. "You kind of wonder what they are doing here," says Linda Bolton Weiser, equity research analyst at Caris & Co. "When companies start to veer off their main focus, it often doesn't work...
...Stephen Phipson, president of Britain-based Smiths Detection, the world's largest maker of full-body scanners, insists that the machines only produce images that show the outlines of the human body, not anatomical parts. "The privacy concerns are valid," he says. "But our software can blur out parts of the body. And the scanners are far less intrusive than the traditional pat down of the body." At the U.S. airports where scanners have been installed, security officers must look at the images in isolated rooms and are not allowed to have any piece of equipment, such as a camera...