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...distiller. The Tamborine Mountain Distillery, tel: (61-7) 5545 3452, uses organically grown fruits and botanicals - such as raspberry, pink grapefruit, wild peppermint, melon, jaboticaba and lemon myrtle - to make an award-winning range of liqueurs, schnapps and eaux de vies sold in hand-painted bottles. Garrulous owner Michael Ward welcomes visitors like an old friend and explains the distillery's traditional methods (first developed by Benedictine monks). Despite the arrival of truckloads of appreciative tourists who can't seem to get enough of Ward's spirits, the family-run business has resisted modernization. "We can't be too busy...
...farms that commenced on Jan. 5 has only exacerbated the sense that matters were spiraling out of control. Department of Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. It was as if the Chinese government were offering thousands of sacrificial rodents to ward off the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse...
Drinking coffee may help ward off type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study by Harvard researchers...
...Beverly and Jenks are recovering from surgery in the intensive-care ward of the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. In a way, they seem as boyish as they did before the attack. While a DVD of Lord of the Rings plays on Beverly's laptop, Jenks laments that his PlayStation 2 console is on its way to Iraq just as he is being sent back to Germany. Both show visitors plastic cups that contain shrapnel fragments removed from their bodies. There is no bitterness or self-pity. Says Beverly: "You've always got to expect the worst...
Even before the season began, Delaney-Smith was calling Holsey a “superstar.” The sophomore guard spent the summer doing exercises to strengthen her shoulder and resting her body to ward off the tendonitis that nagged her knee last year...