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...more than a decade, it has been sleepwalking as globalization transformed the business, bringing with it new markets, new consumers and new competitors. Producers from Australia, New Zealand, California, South Africa, Chile and elsewhere have launched massive - and often brilliantly executed - campaigns to promote their wines across the planet. They have ramped up production, introduced a new generation of consumers to inexpensive, fruity wines with labels that are easy to understand, and, in the process, run off with a colossal amount of business. A decade ago, France exported three times as much wine as all the so-called New World...
...troubled Middle East, such a story is all too familiar. People are too eager to enter into wars that solve no problems, and the results are devastating. Let's hope that the world's problem solvers can lead us to a different, peaceful path for the future of this planet and its people. Lillian Cohen Kfar Monash, Israel Hurricane Hugo Hugo Chavez's speech at the U.N. General Assembly, in which he called President George W. Bush the devil, made no contribution to peace [Oct. 2]. Chávez tried to transform an important forum of debate into a circus...
...heaviest drinker. But for more than a decade, it has sleepwalked as globalization transformed the business, bringing with it new markets and new competitors. Producers from Australia, New Zealand, California, South Africa, Chile and elsewhere have launched massive--and often brilliantly executed--campaigns to promote their wines across the planet. They have ramped up production and introduced a new generation of consumers to inexpensive, fruity wines with labels that are easy to understand, and, in the process, run off with a colossal amount of business...
...prime-time schedule. Although the two other shows in producer Jerry Bruckheimer's franchise--CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York--are also hits, the lush, exotic backdrop of Miami coupled with its high-tech whodunit forensics have made Miami the most popular TV drama on the planet. More than 40 million viewers a week tune in compared with 18 million in the U.S. It's Top 10 in most countries where it airs...
...common knowledge, North Korea is just the latest in a long line of nations to develop nucleear technology. Here, the BBC shows exactly who's got the bomb, how many weapons they have, and what their capabilities are of turning the planet into smoldering radioactive...