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Wine Industry Insight is a partly free, partly by-subscription online trade publication for the California Wine Industry. Its email edition of more than 11,000 gives it the largest circulation of any industry publication.
Savvytaste is a wine-oriented social network, a sort of "Facebook for wine" which can match users to wines they will like.
The matching system allows SavvyTaste users -- from novice to expert -- to search the database for a wine they have already tried and liked, then hit the "Find Similar Wines" button.
SavvyTaste users at every level of experience can also rate wines, share their wines in their personal profiles and connect with other members who like the same wines.
Because genetic, environmental and experiental differences create a vast array of taste preferences, SavvyTaste's rating and matching system provides the Web-based tools to capture the entire spectrum of preferences and to match its users with wines THEY will like.
When prominent Mississippi civil rights attorney asks renowned neurosurgeon Bradford Stone to help her save the life of a white racist condemned to death for the cold case murder of a black man, he has no idea that he is about to be dragged through a deadly past he thought he had escaped once and for all.
Set mostly in Mississippi – primarily the Delta region where the real-life gothic exceeds the most outlandish Flannery O'Connor story – Perfect Killer tells the story of a future which can never break free of the past.
The mystery is centered in the Mississippi Delta in a top-secret military project begun decades ago in a facility once housing German POWs. The program, Project Enduring Valor, is designed to create the ultimate human killing machine.
For over seventy years, has sought the Holy Grail of combat medicine: a chemical compound that would turn ordinary soldiers into weapons of mass destruction, the Perfect Killers.
Now, after decades of covert trial and error which have resulted in troubling side effects such as the My Lai massacre, Enduring Valor is ready to be implemented on a massive scale--despite a few troubling side-effects.
Before he knows it, Stone himself in the sights of the Project's director, a retired general and war hero turned presidential candidate. To get back his life, and expose the truth, Stone must struggle with the South's racist legacy, the demons of his past and penetrate the very heart of the lethal conspiracy.
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Fed by greed and notions of racial superiority, a huge global biotech corporation is about to unleash a killer gene that has rested undisturbed inside every human being for thousands of years.
Their purpose: to control the most diabolical weapon of mass destruction ever designed: a racial bomb which targets only members of specific ethnic groups and it's available to the highest bidder, be they government or terrorist.
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Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda
By Gretchen Peters
Thomas Dunne Books, May 2009 ISBN: 978-0312379278 Hardcover, 320 pages, $25.95
A shorter version of this review by Lewis Perdue appeared in Barron's Weekly.
According to Seeds of Terror most of the Taliban's religious fanatics have been replaced by organized gangs of big-time drug thugs whose primary goal is to protect their cut of the multi-billion-dollar Afghan heroin trade. Peters estimates that the Taliban get at least 70 percent of its funding from the heroin trade and that both Hezbollah and Al Qaeda also benefit from global dope.
While Western media pundits wring their hands about the Afghanistan troop surge turning into another Iraq, Peters, who covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for Associated Press and ABC writes that:
"The parallels are actually closer to Colombia. The Taliban and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by their Spanish acronym FARC, both got their start like modern-day Robin Hoods, protecting rural peasants from the excesses of a corrupt government. Strapped for cash and needing the support of local farmers, both groups began levying a tax on drug crops."
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