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...Manchurian beer war took shape 104 years ago when a Russian man founded China's first beer factory just south of the Siberian border and named it after himself?Ulubulevskij Brewery. Japanese managers took over after Emperor Hirohito's forces conquered Manchuria, as that part of northeast China was known, and the company later fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. Only in the 1950s, after Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, did managers from the mainland take control; in the famine years that followed, they brewed the first Chinese beer from corn. These days the Harbin...
...Breweries bought out the Wisconsin-based Miller Brewing Company), retaliated by declaring that it would launch a $391 million hostile takeover bid for Harbin. The prize is a company that made a profit of just $15 million last year but that offers a coveted entr?e into the beer-loving northeast of China...
...festivities at 5 p.m. The project, called “Rolling Sunlight,” is a collaboration among Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!, the FAS Resource Efficiency Program (REP) and the Climate Campaign. These solar panels have made appearances up and down the Northeast coast this spring, stopping at Middlebury College in Vermont the day before coming to Harvard and rolling on to Bowdoin in Maine the next...
...team in the four-squad regional played at Beren, Harvard will first face Quinnipiac (12-4, 8-0 Northeast Conference). The Bobcats have lost three of their last seven matches, and their last national ranking, coming on April...
Hyperbole? Drive through the desolate towns around Picher, Okla., and you might think differently. This is eco-assault on an epic scale. The prairie here in the northeast corner of the state is punctured with 480 open mine shafts and 30,000 drill holes. Little League fields have been built over an immense underground cavity that could collapse at any time. Acid mine waste flushes into drinking wells. When the water rises in Tar Creek, which runs through the site, a neon-orange scum oozes onto the roadside. Wild onions, a regional delicacy tossed into scrambled eggs, are saturated with...