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...sized breweries like Sailer's. They got a temporary reprieve this year when the government implemented a hefty deposit on cans - which affects big brewers who sell in shops more than little ones who sell barrels to beer houses. Still others have used creative marketing to pull themselves back from the brink. The million-liter-per-year, 180-year-old Härle Brewery in Königseggwald went public this year and offered five cases of their flagship Walder Bräu as an annual recurring dividend. The strategy brought in €800,000 - which was enough to both...
...globe's second-most-powerful economy in 2020? China. Prediction No. 2: The U.S. doctrine of preemptive strikes and increasing unilateralism will pump up the ill feeling between itself and so-called orderly nations like France and Germany. Over the next five years, Schwartz says, American military forces will pull out of almost all their overseas bases, as massive standing deployments give way to a high-tech global police corps calling on small numbers of special forces. The enemy, however, will remain the same. Talking up the possibility that U.S. aggression bolsters the ranks of terror networks, Schwartz leaps into...
...Reading requires your brain to rejigger its visual and speech processors in such a way that artificial markings, such as the letters on a piece of paper, become linked to the sounds they represent. It's not enough simply to hear and understand different words. Your brain has to pull them apart into their constituent sounds, or phonemes. When you see the written word cat, your brain must hear the sounds /k/ ... /a/... /t/ and associate the result with an animal that purrs...
...departed. I have had a great life and want people to honor the fundamental step that flows from life: death! I once owned an Irish bar here in Florida. My idea of the perfect service is to have a keg of beer by my remains and let everyone pull a draft and raise a glass, toasting my life with fond memories. It has been a great run! PETE DERRIG Fort Lauderdale...
...complex that only God could figure it out. Hukku, the chairman and managing director of Bombay-based i-flex solutions, made a deft save. "Sir, we are Indians," he said. "We are very religious, and very close to God." Hukku won the business. Now he's trying to pull off another miracle: making his company the first Indian software producer to establish itself as a global brand...