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...Manchurian beer war took shape 104 years ago when a Russian man founded China's first beer factory just south of the Siberian border and named it after himself?Ulubulevskij Brewery. Japanese managers took over after Emperor Hirohito's forces conquered Manchuria, as that part of northeast China was known, and the company later fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army. Only in the 1950s, after Stalin ordered the return of Chinese assets, did managers from the mainland take control; in the famine years that followed, they brewed the first Chinese beer from corn. These days the Harbin...
...European Union. Ireland - current holder of the rotating E.U. presidency - issued the stamp in the form of a map showing the organization's 15 old and 10 new member states. But keen-eyed philatelists quickly pointed out that the island that was supposedly Cyprus was of the same shape, and in the same location, as Crete. The postal service said it had used "cartographic license" to squeeze far-flung Cyprus onto...
...actual process, Thomason said, “we would brainstorm ideas and scene structures and characters, and then one of us would take a stab at writing a first draft of a chapter, and then the other one would rewrite/edit and shape, and ultimately that was the process that we kept with.” He adds that “it’s changed so much over the past six years over who was doing the initial writing and who’s been doing the rewriting...
...next generation of Americans to ask themselves what they can do for their country and for their world,” Summers said in the press release. “Mort Zuckerman’s gift will make a difference not just to students at Harvard but to the shape of our society for generations to come. I am very grateful for his generosity and his dedication to this important mission...
Faced with these depressing figures, the two sports are launching a marketing blitz to attract new players. Each is spending about $10 million on a campaign to generate more interest in the game. It's all taking shape on two new websites: tenniswelcomecenter.com and playgolfamerica.com Both enable players, novice or experienced, to type in a zip code and search for local facilities that offer lessons, leagues and other programs. For the first time, the alphabet fiefdoms of golf and tennis (the PGA, USGA, ATP Tour, USTA and others) and major manufacturers such as Nike, Wilson, Prince and Callaway seem united...