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Harvard has worked out a deal—not yet closed—to buy out WGBH’s lease and gain its facilities on both sides of Western Avenue, and to buy an adjacent property from WGBH that now holds a Pepsi bottling plant, according to WGBH’s Vice President for Communications Jeanne M. Hopkins...
This San Francisco hangout is an internationally renowned temple of tequila cult. It serves more than 200 brands of the Mexican drink--varieties derived from the juice of the spiky agave plant and far pricier than the sugarcane-diluted rotgut of college frat parties. Tommy's Blue Agave Club, the nation's largest tequila-tasting group, boasts connoisseurs from five continents among its 5,000 members. Julio gives seminars in France, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. And when Mexican distillers visit Tommy's, patrons ask for their autographs. "They get rock-star status," he said...
...securities broker, boasted that he could identify 50 tequilas in a blind test. Such aficionados often join Julio's annual tour of distilleries in Jalisco, in central Mexico, where most tequila is made. And the sight of them brings smiles to Mexican farmers, as they scramble to plant more agave...
Last week Bush introduced a new "Clean Skies" initiative that he said "will constitute the most significant step America has ever taken--has ever taken--to cut power-plant emissions." But environmentalists didn't bite. "His claim is ludicrous," says Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust. "What he's really proposing is a massive relaxation of the Clean Air Act." Sources tell TIME that Christie Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, fought for tougher restrictions but was rebuffed. The EPA's own numbers say the Clean Air Act left alone will reduce power-plant emissions nearly twice...
...Thailand, too, has asked the wto for trademark protection for its famed variety of jasmine rice?the bright white, popcorn-flavored staple served in many Asian-cuisine restaurants. Thai farmers fear that a strain of the rice being developed for American climes by plant geneticist Chris Deren at the University of Florida will significantly cut into the $300 million worth of jasmine rice sold each year...