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...Just 45 minutes from the raucous theme parks and gaudy casinos of Queensland's Gold Coast is one of Australia's best-kept secrets and possibly its finest distiller. The Tamborine Mountain Distillery, tel: (61-7) 5545 3452, uses a myriad of organically grown fruits and botanicals?such as jaboticaba, raspberry, pink grapefruit, wild peppermint, melon and lemon myrtle?to make an award-winning range of spirits, sold in hand-painted bottles...
...1990s, containment of America took a different form. With the acquiescence of a Democratic Administration uncomfortable with American power, silk ropes were fashioned to tie down Gulliver: a myriad of treaties, protocols and prohibitions on everything from carbon emissions to land mines to nuclear testing. With the advent of the Bush Administration, contemptuous of these restraints, that would no longer work. Enter al-Qaeda...
Just last week, it hardly seemed worth repeating the myriad reasons that sending back the bells made less sense than climbing into a sauna with Boris Yeltsin and a fifth of bathtub vodka. Aside from the cost and inconvenience involved, returning the artifacts would deprive Harvard of one of its most distinctive charms. And did the Eastern patriarchs expect Lowell’s corps of dedicated, if a bit eccentric, klappermeisters to just pick up and find a new weirdly cultish pseudo-extracurricular? With all due respect, fathers, if you want some bells, I hear there?...
Medicare could turn out to be his--and the President's--grand domestic prize going into the election. The proposal before Congress would reform the program in myriad ways, most notably by giving seniors their first prescription-drug benefit. Democrats, who also know that a Bush victory on prescription drugs would be politically devastating, are scrambling to stop the $400 billion measure. More important, Democrats oppose the bill's embrace of private-style health care, its failure to rein in pharmaceutical companies and its generous subsidies for HMOs. The House narrowly passed the controversial measure early Saturday morning...
Even in safer regions, older volunteers stare down tricky challenges. Feeling restless after her husband's death, microbiologist Bettylene Franzus volunteered in her Tennessee town but felt confined by the work. So she joined WorldTeach and now instructs Marshall Islands high schoolers in science. At 75, she's handling myriad problems, from logistical (her science books crumble in the salt air) to physical (the school has no janitor, so she swabs floors, sweeps coral dust and empties trash bins in her classroom) to intellectual (though she's a science instructor, her students' difficulty with English means she also teaches...