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...most fully. It was Claus Riedel, designer and ninth-generation owner of the family firm, who first noted that the size and shape of a glass affect the perception of aroma and flavor. In 1973 he designed the basic Sommelier series that set the wine world in a whirl. Claus' son Georg took over the company in 1994 and put scientific and marketing punch behind his father's pioneering concepts...
...Sklyarov, the three weeks until his bail hearing last Monday were a whirl of jails: federal detention centers in Nevada, Oklahoma and California. Though separated from his wife, two-year-old son and four-month-old daughter back in Moscow, Sklyarov was typically upbeat about his imprisonment. He read mystery and romance novels to improve his English and felt he was learning a lot about U.S. society: "When you watch American movies, you see the policeman arrest somebody and read him his rights and that's all, but it's very interesting what happens after...
...consensual sex. Ideally, the case would come down to police work, lawyers' arguments, witness testimony and an impartial judiciary. But this is Okinawa in 2001, and a black American serviceman stands accused of raping a Japanese woman. Which means an already murky case has been churned into a raging whirl by nationalist politics, screaming media, a half-century of dammed-up local grief and?roiling unmentioned beneath it all?an undercurrent of racism...
...Take another whirl with the poor cat and you?ll find someone who takes the opposite view. Folks in this corner believe Bush should look more presidential. He should stop goofing around with the nicknames and the jokes and sit up straight and act like the leader of the free world. You might think this kind of advice would confuse a White House - but in Bushland they?ve decided both sides are right. The president needs to hang with regular people - particularly regular people of color - and let his charms show, and he needs to find moments when...
...dedicates herself to confirming and recapturing this transcendent moment. She first gives Christianity a whirl, attending services at the Greater Love Salvation Church, "a Pentecostal millenarian revivalist congregation." And although she accepts Jesus as her Saviour, she rather quickly grows annoyed at what she sees as his unresponsiveness: "Lord, sometimes I feel like you really aren't listening." Next she hitches up with a group of Buddhists but soon finds the regimen and food unpalatable, "because it seems like there's a fine line between purification and starving to death...