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...Bruno de Saizieu, sales and marketing director of Maestro-maker Alcan, is confident that cork's reign will end one day. Judging from the success of Alcan's Stelvin wine screw cap - whose global sales have skyrocketed from 300 million in 2003 to 3 billion today - De Saizieu thinks Champagne will eventually adopt the Maestro system as well. "When we started the Stelvin, there were an enormous number of people who were outraged," he says. "Today, like them or not, screw caps are no longer questioned as viable alternatives around the world. In Champagne it will be the same...
...Maestro. After all, he asks, what would Champagne Drappier's most famous client have thought? "Charles de Gaulle liked his Champagne bottles as simple as a jar of Mom's homemade jam, so I think he'd have been slow to warm to anything too gadgety." If success for Champagne's cork innovators depends on pleasing public and presidential palates, it could be a long wait...
...ranked school in the nation and the No. 1-seeded school going into this event, the Black and White has a strong chance of being in the top 16 to qualify for the NCAA championships taking place later this month. The rest of the heavyweight team had similar success, as the second varsity eight managed to pull away with a bronze medal despite being seeded fourth. Following Brown and Yale, which pulled 6:34.2 and 6:39.7 respectively, Radcliffe bested the No. 3 seeded Princeton with a time of 6:42.45. The remaining heavyweight races included a tight third place...
...abusive tongue") and provocative contemporary Buddhist art, still wakes at 2 a.m. to meditate and then scrutinize the stucco motifs by flashlight. He writes in his book Creating Buddhist Art for the Land, "I love and am attached to my project like all parents who want to see the success of their children. That's why I suffer every time when things don't come out as I've expected. This is the dharma principle that I hold to be my mentor these days. As I build, I also practice dharma." (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...
...these were bureaucratic advances, the sort that only occasionally lead to actual changes. Holbrooke was well aware of this, of course, and he was quick to say that "no one is promising that this will win the war." He then added, with a certain pride of authorship, "But success isn't possible if we didn't do it." And he's right: for the first time, Afghan and Pakistani Ministers of the Interior sat down and hammered out a rudimentary agreement on information-sharing. Agricultural and trade delegations also met, as did, most significant of all, military and intelligence representatives...