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...Italian-Austrian who ranched cattle in Kenya's Rift Valley. She is the daughter of a South African sugar-cane farmer. While John and Erica Platter were not actually born into South Africa's 300-year-old viticulture industry, they have nonetheless become the foremost ambassadors of the country's wine. The Platters' annual South African wine guide was first published in 1979. The 2003 edition is 520 pages thick, and required reading among the sundowner-sipping svelte of the veldt. Now, after what they describe as "a year, or two, of drinking dangerously" the couple have completed a safari...
...decry the Empire's sins; Ferguson celebrates it for dragging the world into the modern age. As an economist, Ferguson is particularly good at explaining how the assets seized by Elizabethan buccaneers fed, in the 18th century, the habits of an emergent consumer society hooked then as now on sugar, coffee and tobacco; how Britain evolved a system of national debt to build a vast navy; how the East India Company's ports and forts seeded a global system of trade - which he dubs Anglobalization - that still thrums today. But Ferguson's Empire balance sheets show some creative accounting. Though...
Cathleen Rodriguez, 33, of Sugar Land, Texas, plays in two bunco groups, is an alternate in a third and has become such a bunco enthusiast that she self-published Dice with Spice: A Bunco Cookbook, with recipes and menus for bunco parties. For her, playing bunco is "time away from being Mommy and wife, to laugh with the gals and have a good old time," she says. "I would take on another group, but my husband says I've used up my fun quotient for the month." Single women, weary of smoky bars and disappointing blind dates, enjoy the parties...
...ridiculous for overweight teenagers to sue McDonald's [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. The kids say McDonald's didn't adequately warn them that its meals contained lots of fat, salt and sugar. But the teens' obesity and health problems are their parents' fault as well as their own. Their parents should not have let them eat at McDonald's nearly every day for years on end. Children must be taught that some foods are bad for you. Any lawsuit shouldn't be against McDonald's; it should be against the negligent parents. CHARLES KYUNGHWAN KIM Hacienda Heights, Calif...
Harvard Right to Life (HRL) has just launched a vicious campaign against Harvard women. This is not a policy initiative campaign or an awareness campaign. It is a campaign aimed at intimidating pregnant college women into not seeking abortions. To take the edge off, HRL has sugar-coated their message by couching it in childish language with a quote from Dr. Seuss and identifying the fetus as a little girl. Even the name choice is not benign: “Natalie” is derived from the Latin word for “birthday?...