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...market, but after securing contracts with the likes of Wal-Mart and Costco, the company wanted a domestic manufacturing presence. Tramontina settled on Manitowoc because the city's former Mirro cookware plant, shut down in April 2003, had everything the Brazilian company needed. "The factory was in great shape, and we have access to a highly skilled work force with a tradition of making cookware," Galafassi says. "There's just a lot of synergy." --By Maggie Sieger
That idea of a dream ticket could happen only in the movies, of course. But the buzz that greets Clinton and McCain these days tells you something about what's increasingly apparent in real-world politics: the 2008 race is already taking shape, and the shape it is taking looks very much like these two potential rivals. Should McCain and Clinton each decide to make a bid--and most people around them expect it--both would become their party's instant front runner, which is not an entirely good thing. In an open field without an incumbent President or Vice...
...knows the labyrinthine world of Venice or the way favoritism and corruption shape Italian life like Leon's Brunetti. Blood from a Stone is not her best plot, but fortunately all 13 other Brunettis are now in paperback for those who have not yet met the thoughtful Venetian cop with a love of food, an outspoken wife and a computer-hacker secretary who plays man Friday to his detective...
...FASHIONED PEPPER Over the centuries, long peppers fell from fashion in favor of the round peppercorn. But food fashions can change. Whole Foods and specialty markets are reintroducing the mini-pinecone-shape spice, which combines heat with sweet overtones...
...power of divine right is on their side: the land God gave to the Jews cannot be given away by any state. The issues raised for the country are cosmic. Will a minority of settlers who have long enjoyed an outsize ability to set the national agenda continue to shape the country's destiny? Will Israelis live by the laws of the state or under the authority of religion...