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According to Hermacinski, this bargain level of wine collecting is mostly neglected by men. "They often shop by reading the Wine Spectator for their high-scoring and expensive recommendations," she observes. Women are more likely to ask advice from a person at a wine shop, according to a survey by Constellation Wines U.S. They appear to be less influenced by formal ratings. (Both genders, however, can be suckers for a nice label, according to the survey, though men are more drawn to images of châteaux, coats of arms and braiding, as opposed to the scenic and floral labels that...
...Franciscans are prepared - at least psychologically - for the next big earthquake they know will someday hit their city. But how ready is the rest of the country for the other disasters - natural and manmade - waiting to strike? Not very, according to a survey by TIME's Amanda Bower...
...Geological Survey predicts there is up to a 40% chance that a quake of magnitude 6.0 or greater will hit here in the next 50 years, causing serious damage to communities from Memphis to St. Louis. That's especially bad news for Memphis, the biggest urban center in the region. In January, Memphis was ranked second least-prepared (after Louisville, Ky.) among 30 big cities studied by the American Disaster Preparedness Foundation. "Memphis has an aging infrastructure and many of its large buildings, including unreinforced schools and fire and police stations, are particularly fragile," U.S.Geological Survey geologist Eugene Schweig testified...
...those guys couldn't sell lemonade in Saudi Arabia in the summer, and they come back with orders," he says. Vultaggio would sift through Dumpsters and shake Arizona cans to see if consumers were gulping it down, and he still uses the tactic, which he calls the garbage survey. "You talk about the latest data," he says. "Garbage is usually cleaned every day." From 1992 to '94, Arizona grew from $20 million to $300 million, and it now outsells Snapple...
From the local vista point known as Twin Peaks, Mary Lou Zoback, a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), looks out on a breathtaking view of San Francisco--the gilded dome of City Hall, the diagonal stripe of Market Street, the little neighborhoods marching up and down steep hillsides. Slowly she pivots, taking in the sailboats on the bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, the shimmering surface of the Pacific Ocean. Just out there--she points--a couple of miles offshore, lies the place where, early in the morning of April 18, 1906, the earth's crust cracked like...