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...become more sophisticated, 100% agave varieties have been growing in popularity, with sales rising 12 times as fast as those of cheaper mixes. Even during the past year, when a shortage of agave plants led to price hikes and the recession contributed to a sharp dip in tequila sales, pure-agave brands grew as a proportion of exports. Enthusiasts are flocking to tequila meccas such as Citrus Bar & Grill in Manhattan, Adobe Grill in Chicago, El Carmen in Los Angeles and the Blue Mesa Grill in Dallas...
...Julio Bermejo, 43, a political-science graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, launches into Tequila 101. An explanation of the differences among silver (unaged), reposado (aged at least two months) and anejo (aged at least a year) is only the start. Join the club for $10, sample 35 pure-agave brands (no more than three per visit), and you will get an oak-framed "tequila master's" diploma and a T shirt. But to attain a "Ph.D." in tequila studies, you must taste another 35 brands and pass a 70-question written test...
...without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were less than pure; although he undoubtedly had a sense of the Aeneid’s unsurpassable greatness, the poem also served Augustus on a more practical level by extolling, at least on a superficial level, the greatness of imperial Rome—the Rome that Augustus personified...
...charges catalog a shattering litany of persecution, extermination, murder, torture, inhumane acts, wanton destruction, deportation and forcible transfer. The indictments accuse Milosevic, as the "dominant political figure" in Serbia, of orchestrating a "joint criminal enterprise" to cleanse non-Serbs from vast swaths of territory to leave an ethnically pure nation...
...your hips swaying to the rhythms of the latest Bollywood hits as you pass Little India. For a brief respite, duck into the scented world of Sheik Abdul Hamid Bin Hassan Badjenid's perfume shop?run by three generations of Yemenite traders?where you can buy tiny bottles of pure frankincense oil for $160 apiece...