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...Karen brings wine down to earth but is still serious about it. She demystifies and educates at the same time," says Doug Shafer, president of Shafer Vineyards in Napa Valley, whose Cabernet Sauvignon MacNeil has compared to the sensation of wearing "cashmere pajamas...
...plus-page Wine Bible in 2001. The book, which covers in an unpretentious style all aspects of making, drinking and enjoying wine, has sold 246,000 copies and is in its 10th printing. MacNeil's entire life is defined by wine--she even lives at a vineyard in Napa Valley with her winemaking husband Dennis Fife. And although individual wine consumption is gradually increasing in the U.S.--up 11.2% since 1991--that is not fast enough for MacNeil. "It is as if most of the world didn't know about chocolate," she says. "You want to tell everyone about...
...Paradise Valley, Ariz...
While Silicon Valley has yet to recover from the dotcom bust, other parts of the state's economy are booming, including tourism, hotels and construction. The number of housing permits issued rose 4.4% from January to October. The defense industry, which lost 150,000 jobs with the end of the cold war in the early 1990s, has begun to grow again as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the past four years, defense investment in California has increased 44%, and last year the state got $30 billion in military contracts, much of it in high-tech...
...guns, and came out for a ban, to take effect in 2012, on force-feeding ducks, which is how foie gras is produced. "Arnold is the leading indicator of the revenge of the political moderates," says Paul Saffo, a director of the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley think tank. The Governor has deliberately created a distance between himself and the more conservative wing of the Republican Party. During the presidential campaigns, he appeared only once, in Ohio, for George W. Bush...