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...color of ros? usually comes from the grape skins: leave the juice in contact with the red skins for a long enough time, then siphon off the juice and you get ros?. The wine is best enjoyed young, and flavors range from strawberries and cream to slightly spritzy. First-timers should try the can't-go-wrong bottlings from France's Provence and Languedoc regions, especially the latter. There's also Spanish rosado and Australia's wonderful Turkey Flat. Serve chilled and take no flak: wine snobs have no idea what they're missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Pink | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...deposed Suharto regime in Indonesia, for example, was notorious for squandering public funds on subsidies for businesses owned by President Suharto’s children. Developed nations like the United States ought to donate money to cover these gaps—not to the governments, which will siphon aid into their own bank accounts, but to non-governmental organizations that will spend the aid on primary education, disease control, family-planning and other measures that improve the quality of life and foster economic growth...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: Ending Regimes of Poverty | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...people in Piura live on less than $2 a day, 90% of Tambogrande's voters rejected the Manhattan Minerals project in a nonbinding referendum late last year. Many are fearful that the open-pit mine will corrupt their farmlands, even though Manhattan pledges not to sully or siphon off the area's precious irrigation canals and reservoirs. "We are not going to allow a mine to destroy our way of life," says Tambogrande Mayor Francisco Ojeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mining: Not Golden | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...withdraw we must not siphon away resources from the Iraqi people,” Tanaka said...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rally Challenges Post-9/11 Policies | 10/22/2003 | See Source »

...administration’s response to this crisis? Siphon cash from the federal government’s general fund so that the burden for cleaning up pollution falls on taxpayers. It is enough to bring even beginning economics students to tears...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: Bush's Distorted Economics | 10/1/2003 | See Source »

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