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...Yerba mate, a rain-forest plant native to South America, has long been brewed there as an alternative to tea and coffee. Mate sippers credit the green tea-like drink, which has less caffeine than coffee, with fighting fatigue, aiding digestion and helping defog the brain. Now yerba mate, in flavors like orange blossom and mint, is showing up in the U.S. in specialty teas, chocolates and bottled drinks. The grassy-tasting plant has been added to two varieties of SmartChocolate bars, a new raspberry flavor of Vitaminwater called Determination, and Zygo, a peach-infused vodka. Enthusiasts claim the plant...
...LIEBERMAN $3 m The Connecticut Senator - Al Gore's running mate in 2000 - blames a late start for surprisingly low funds. That excuse only works once...
...fall of 2000, however, Cheney was back in it--big time. As the vice-presidential running mate of the son of his old boss, he was beginning to focus on problems the Clinton Administration had been unable to solve. High among them was Iraq's continued defiance of U.N. resolutions requiring it to disarm. And when he broached the topic on the campaign trail, Cheney sounded ever more hawkish. He had been outraged by Saddam's attempt in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait, and he thought the short bombing campaign after Iraq kicked out the U.N. inspectors...
...same way as the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans." By last summer, to the surprise of many old critics, Cheney's intellectual journey was complete. William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, the Koran of neoconservative thought, was critical when Bush chose Cheney as a running mate precisely because of his defense of the way the Gulf War ended. Now, says Kristol, neoconservatives happily "consider him a fellow-traveler." But a couple of others still had to be persuaded to come along on the journey...
...evening, we turned in our scorecards, with each potential mate marked yes or no. Albert, No. 52, was thrilled. "I felt like a kid in a candy store," he said. "And I walked out of there with a buzz." I left with more of a headache--but also with the phone numbers of two lawyers, Sandy and Margarita. They're girls. And we're going to a bar next week to dish about guys...