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...Stein the wine writer apparently finds it acceptable to use ?good? as the primary descriptor of wine. In his attempt at discussing terroir, he lost all credibility with serious wine enthusiasts. Perhaps he should drink out of the spit bucket more often, as it seems to be to his taste. Katherine Dozier, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

After a lengthy tasting session where we tried 20 wines, my drunken friends encouraged me to drink from the spit bucket. I took a whiff and instantly realized it couldn't taste as bad as the red from Cape Cod, which was the worst beverage of any kind I'd ever tasted--and I had to swallow barium for an upper-GI test. As I took a swig and swirled it around to gross out my friends, I thought it tasted like America. It was sweet, funky, simple, aggressive and not as bad as you'd been led to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty States of Wine | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...times he seemed totally lost, like he was seeing the speech on the teleprompter for the first time. But you finally saw blood, flesh and spit, saw a real human being talking about America's fortunes and Obama's vision like he was leaning against your back door and grabbing you by the lapels. And when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair pivoted to foreign policy, he took out Karl Rove's playbook and went straight after McCain's greatest perceived strength. He ran down a litany of charges, on Afghanistan, Iran, time lines in Iraq, and declared that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Builds a Bridge to Obama | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...like to know your lifetime risk of Type 2 diabetes or whence your forebears came, there's probably a Web-based genetic-testing company out there that can tell you. Most of them require just a visit to the website, a credit-card number and your spit sample sent in the mail. But the question is, How helpful is the information you receive? How accurate? The science behind these tests is still so new that some health regulators and medical professionals are questioning their validity and their practical utility. TIME.com's Sarah N. Lynch recently sat down with Linda Avey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Can Genetic Tests Tell You? | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...director promptly resigned and 180 of his employees staged a walkout, thereby shutting down the facility. Secretary of State for * Information Aubelin Jolicoeur only made matters worse by going on the radio and declaring that the strikers were ''without honor.'' Said he: ''If I saw them, I would spit in their faces.'' The government's action in the TV case led to violent demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and several other cities. Protesters blocked highways by erecting burning barricades. Along the Harry Truman Sea Drive in the capital, angry youths hurled rocks and pieces of iron at passing motorists. Observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI AT THE EDGE OF THE VOLCANO A government hangs on for life | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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