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...improvement," says Philip Gregan, CEO of New Zealand Wine Growers, where 90% of the domestic market is screwcapped. But, he says, business is business. "I think if the cork forests need to be protected, it's through protecting the cork forests - not forcing wine producers to buy a particular type of closure...
...troops, at their highest level ever in Iraq, have delivered visible results in recent months. Violence in Baghdad in particular is down significantly. In a matter of months, Anbar Province, with the help of tribal leaders, has gone from a virtual lost cause to the greatest U.S. achievement in years of struggle. To be sure, violence is still extraordinarily high, especially in places like Diyala Province. And the situation in Anbar is fragile at best as other problems loom ever larger in the face of political stalemate in Baghdad. But anyone wondering whether the surge strategy has brought gains...
...possible. Today's scene is the culmination of months of talks with the villagers of Gabane, 15km (10 miles) outside the capital, Gaborone. First they had to be asked for permission for a film to be made on their land. Then they needed to be told that the particular scene Minghella wanted to shoot there was a funeral. And then, of course, they had to be persuaded to show up as extras...
...original miners were caught some 2,000 ft. from the entrance. That pretty much ensured that it would take a long time to reach them: rescuers essentially have to re-excavate the entire entrance tunnel, now filled with rubble - and do it with extraordinary care. That's because this particular mine is an old one. "You have increased risk," says Davitt McAteer, vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia and a former MSHA assistant secretary, "because you've already disturbed the ground quite substantially...
...Perhaps one of the best things the report will do is create competitive pressure, Cilluffo suggests, spurring the feds and other police departments to greater feats of transparency and nuance. Historically, at the FBI and the Department of Justice in particular, intelligence is meant to be kept close, and the public is not to be trusted. Hopefully, the public and the NYPD will, eventually, prove them wrong...