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Heinrich Breuer of Georg Breuer Weingut also granted me an audience. Standing among the 1,200-liter Stücken (large oval wine casks made of oak), I commented that his cellar was unusually warm. He explained that he dislikes the now ubiquitous modern technique of temperature control, which often promotes fruitier wines. "It's as if your children were brought up with no fresh air," he says. His wines--even his Spatbürgunder (Pinot Noir)--are exciting...
...pension fund. The crisis has so discredited him, he almost lost his job last November to Donna Frye, a last-minute write-in candidate who runs a surf shop. She actually won more votes, but some 5,500 people who wrote in her name failed to shade in an oval box, and the courts ruled the ballots invalid...
...week to ten days of postoperative recuperation after that. Even after he returned to the White House, it might take as long as two months for him to regain his full strength, and there would be continuing concern about the health of the oldest man ever to occupy the Oval Office...
...President sits in the Oval Office, that egg of light, as Author John Hersey once described it. He is all wired up to microphones that will transmit his words to the typists. A clutch of aides hover at the fringe, but otherwise Ronald Reagan and his guest are alone, as they have been a dozen times in the past 4½ years...
...Papua New Guinea's Independence Day last year, Australian photojournalist Paul Blackmore turned up for the official celebrations at a Port Moresby stadium to find a scene not of triumph but of tragedy. An army battalion marched on an oval of withered grass before a virtually empty grandstand - and those in attendance seemed imprisoned by the stadium's machine-gun-wielding guards. "The whole thing was so bedraggled," Blackmore recalls...