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...course, the most romantic flowering of the spirit America went into the region to foster: the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, in which unarmed civilians, Christian and Muslim alike, brought down the puppet government installed by Syria. There is even the beginning of a breeze in Damascus. More than 140 Syrian intellectuals have signed a public statement defying their government by opposing its occupation of Lebanon...
...mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall in search of romance"; fetus worshipping, spirit channeling, and other not-in-front-of-the-tourists activities...
...church is a multinational, but a multinational that is guided by the Holy Spirit." JULIAN CARDINAL HERRANZ, on why Pope John Paul II is unlikely to retire due to his frail health, as the executive of a company might...
...trying to create a leadership American vodka brand in Shakers," says Tim Clarke, CEO of Infinite Spirits, who, together with co-founders Mark Bozzini and master distiller Pat Couteaux, spent two years researching and experimenting with ingredients before introducing the $30-a-bottle vodka in 2003. Distilled in a six-column continuous still in the retrofitted Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. in Benson, Minn.--using wheat and rye grown by nearby farmers--Shakers' four flavors of vodka racked up about $4 million in sales in 17 states in 2004. Now the brand is going national. "It's a real cracker...
...government will spend big and refine the law to try to make things better for separated parents and their children. It will be clearer soon to Australians whether the problems of post-separation parenting are predominantly legal, or whether they're hopelessly ensnared in the limitations of the human spirit...