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...point, Shin wrote an e-mail to her instructor Riaz Shiraz Dhanani suggesting suicidal tendencies after receiving the second lowest score on an exam, according to Regan Communications...
PARIS -- Iranian government sources have confirmed that a Chinese nuclear engineer and two Iranian technicians who vanished in the Iranian city of Shiraz on June 3 were kidnapped. The men are thought to have possessed classified information on Iran's nuclear program. It is unclear who kidnapped them; spies from several nations operate in the area...
...expertise in Persian studies led Frye to leave Harvard temporarily to become director of the Asia Institute at the University of Shiraz in Iran from 1967 to 1975. And it was while he was working at the Institute, coordinating programs for Middle Eastern students, that he collected much of the information with which he currently performs his own research on ancient Persian culture, including scrolls and reproductions of inscriptions which are more than 1500 years...
...principal varietals, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay, are familiar to U.S. buyers. Nonetheless, winemakers Down Under are carefree about tradition, and some of their practices are downright heretical by American or French standards: for example, blending Cabernet Sauvignon, a red grape from the Bordeaux area, with Shiraz, a Rhone Valley varietal known in France as the Syrah. Labels can be confusing as well; the Australians use a lot of mysterious bin numbers, which are intended to denote wines of special quality...
...sake of today's potential profits. A relatively small group of medium- and large-size firms accounts for some 90% of Australia's wine output. Until this year, many of the independent growers who supply such major Down Under producers as Penfolds, Seppelt and Lindeman's were rooting out Shiraz (even though it makes some of the country's most distinctive wines) and replanting with the more fashionable Cabernet Sauvignon...