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...hotels now offer alcohol-appreciation lessons as a way of keeping guests amused. "There is growing competition to offer guests paying premium rates an experience which carries some bragging rights when they return home," says Ritz-Carlton spokeswoman Vivian Deuschl. "There is only so much time hotel guests can lie in the sun. They want to learn something new that enhances their overall lifestyle." With that in mind, the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall in Jamaica, ritzcarlton.com, employs a local "rummier" who-in a stimulating 30-minute course-teaches guests the difference between various dark, light, flavored and overproof rums. Classes...
China faces many serious drawbacks. Its economy depends on trade with the U.S., even though the U.S. has an unmanageable trade deficit with China. China the new superpower? That is wishful thinking. It is only the beginning of the 21st century, and many challenges lie ahead...
...chance to challenge one of the country’s best teams. That test may await on Tuesday at No. 9 Boston College in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament, but, with six conference tilts left and only one against a team with a winning record, it could lie as much as a month in the future. “We have to take one at a time, play better than the team in front of us, and then move on,” Stone said. Such is the nature of the ECAC, a conference noted for the continued...
...more prosperous future has been shaken. "Yubari citizens are filled with anxiety about the future, and so are a lot of Japanese people," says Sasaya, the snow piling outside his small shop in Yubari's shuttered downtown. "It makes me wonder where Japan is headed." The answer could lie in another Newtonian law: what goes up, must come down...
...Weinberger picked Carlucci to be his deputy in 1981, many conservatives criticized the choice of a nonideological bureaucrat who had served with Jimmy Carter. At the Pentagon he was extremely sensitive to leaks, and after one such incident he had some 25 high-level officials, including himself, submit to lie-detector tests. "I believe in appropriate secrets," Carlucci says, "and I believe in keeping them." But unlike CIA Director William Casey, Carlucci is comfortable with the concept of congressional oversight of intelligence activities...