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...Ireland's C&C Group - and be ready to cough up the princely sum of $7 to $8. That's as much or more than you'd pay for any other cider or beer on offer. But price be damned, say British drinkers, who are acquiring a growing thirst for ciders in general, and premium ones in particular. Cider consumption in Britain jumped 35% last year - an increase analysts have dubbed the Magners effect. That's a tribute to a brand that has reinvented the centuries-old drink. Magners only became widely available in Britain last year...
...course, there's a long history of drinking cider in Britain and Ireland. But will consumers beyond those isles submit to the allure of an icy glass of fermented apple juice? Eager to gauge their thirst, C&C is conducting market tests in two European cities - Barcelona and Munich - this summer. And S&N says it expects to offer its cider brands in a variety of Continental markets. Both admit it will be a harder sell. Barring a few exceptions - like northern France - cider drinking is unknown across most of Europe. Fenella Tyler, communications manager for S&N's cider...
...hope." The Pope acknowledged the need for the Church to respond to the challenge of evangelical Christian movements, which have been luring Catholics away with their more immediate approach to faith. Catholicism, he said, must be "more missionary and more dynamic in offering a response to this thirst...
...kids to see where they’re from in Africa and then teaching them the science of DNA.” Many schools have already contacted Gates in the hopes that they can be the first to try out the curriculum, which is intended to spark a thirst for knowledge particularly among students in inner city schools, he said. Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism awarded him a Special Lifetime Achievement Award at its ninth annual competition and workshop on journalism, race, and ethnicity. The school’s associate dean of prizes and programs, Arlene...
...raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War, a conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country’s south that ended in 2005. After fleeing his village in distress, enduring extreme hunger and thirst, and weathering ambushes by Arab troops, Dau eventually reached a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he said last night. There, Dau explained, he became an informal leader among a group of as many as 200 boys, all refugees who had fled the violence in Sudan. In 1991, when civil war brought...