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Alcohol and Sport have always shared a close relationship. Since the first grapes were crushed and left to ferment, wine and subsequently beer and hard alcohol have been associated with merry-making and festivals in all regions of the world...
...transfers of more than $1 million from a grandparent to a grandchild. But Dole once helped shrink even that paltry number at the urging of two of his biggest cash donors, Ernest and Julio Gallo. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Gallos, who own the biggest wine-making company in the country, are Dole's largest financial backers, having given more than $1 million over the years. But that is a modest investment compared with the $80 million that the Gallos were able to shelter thanks to Dole. In a House-Senate conference during the summer...
...North End: Boston's Italian neighborhood features many hole-in-the-wall restaurants with great pasta and good wine. I won't recommend any one in particular; just start walking through the area and pick one. You probably won't go wrong. Pick a second restaurant for dessert, and continue to explore the neighborhood, genuine gelato in hand. While you're in the North End, visit the sites of your high school U.S. history class: Paul Revere's home and Old North Church (home of "One if by land, two if by sea." And if anyone asks...
...building houses in Appalachia with her church group and taking ballet lessons, the Sidwell Friends senior went off with her mother the first week in August to tour Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Wellesley and Yale. One evening they dined at the Spoleto Restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts. Two glasses of wine were ordered. The pasta was barely digested before the local paper reported that the underage Chelsea had been drinking. For two days the Boston airwaves and papers buzzed with Chardonnaygate. The state's Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission launched an inquiry. Finally, the newspaper conceded there had been a "misunderstanding...
...levels are 90% determined by their genes. Lp(a) may promote cholesterol buildup on artery walls. But there is no sure way to reduce high levels of it, although the Framingham researchers speculate that aspirin, which thins the blood, may mitigate its effects. Preliminary evidence also suggests that red wine may drive down the levels of Lp(a)--possibly explaining why the French can eat lots of high-fat foods without suffering high rates of heart disease...