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...still account for nearly half of the 1.22 billion gal. (4.6 billion liters) consumed annually, but the rest of the world is catching up fast, and global growth prospects are huge, especially for so-called premium vodkas. "There was no way that an ambitious company like Pernod Ricard could pass up an opportunity to acquire Absolut, even though it has cost them dear," says senior drinks company analyst Jeremy Cunnington of Euromonitor International...
...Nationwide, about 10 more states, including Illinois, have started reporting mental health information to the federal database since the Virginia Tech tragedy - bringing the total to 32. Other states are considering laws to improve their reporting, but many of those bills are not expected to pass into law. For now, in other words, 18 states still would not report someone like Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, to the federal database...
...Congress and the White House point to the bill they did pass after Virginia Tech as evidence of progress. But that law, which would create financial incentives for states to improve their reporting to the federal database, is not very impressive. It just authorizes new incentives; it doesn't appropriate the money for them. In Congress, nothing is real until the cash is actually appropriated (which in this case could happen this summer or fall or... never...
...nearly 40% of guns; gun-rights groups say the number is under 3% - mostly just family members selling rifles to each other over kitchen tables. A bill to close the gun-show loophole in Virginia was killed by legislators after the Virginia Tech massacre. Congress has repeatedly failed to pass similar legislation...
...lead. All three goals came from a feeder from the behind the net to a player who quick-sticked the ball in. The most bizarre goal of the game came when the teams were tied 3-3. Freshman Jess Halpern was at the top of arc and looking to pass to a teammate who was cutting through the middle. The ball went past the teammate and past the Princeton goalie into the back of the net to give Harvard a 4-3 advantage. The rest of the half remained neck and neck. When one team would score, the other would...