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...ancient Egyptians were relative newcomers to the wine industry, says McGovern, whose new book, Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture (Princeton University Press; 365 pages), traces the long prehistory of our most celebrated beverage. The earliest pharaohs imported wine from the southern Levant, and before the occupants of that region became winemakers, about 6,000 years ago, they no doubt imported wine from their neighbors. In such stepwise fashion, McGovern suggests, viniculture (a term he uses to encompass both the growing and the processing of grapes for wine) spread from its point of origin in the uplands...
Harvard embodies an institutional commitment to excellence that is blind to racial, sexual or cultural identity. Our need-blind admissions policy selects students based on their potential for achievement, not on the basis of their conditions of origin. Aid policies ensure that no student is prevented from attending Harvard based on economic disadvantages. Fellowships and prizes are open to all Harvard students and are awarded on the basis of merit. Harvard’s policies and procedures have been carefully designed to avoid discriminating between its students on the basis of criteria irrelevant to the quality of their work...
Though diplomas claim a Dallas, Texas origin, they are mailed from TSU’s offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
...This year, Austria for the first time introduced a system of appellation of origin, clearly identifying individual wine-growing areas, most of them within easy reach of Vienna. Why aren't Austrian wines world-famous? After all, Austrians drink some 33 L of wine per person per year, well above Germany, whose wines are better known. The reason is that 80% of the annual production is consumed within the country. And you can expect to pay around $30 a bottle for a premium Austrian wine...
...dismissed as a multiculturalist out of touch with western reality. I suggest that before Smith continues extolling Western forefathers as veritas he challenge his ingrained beliefs, perhaps reading Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States or Diop’s The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, and only after learning other perspectives make the case for Locke and Hobbes exclusively as required reading...