Cuba's new alcohol/ethanol policy.
When it comes to the ethanol industry, no one denies that Cuba lost some important opportunities in the 1980s by refusing to follow Brazil's example. Unlike Colombia and Costa Rica, the Cuban government neglected to expand existing distilleries and didn't bother to improve the overall production of...

Probabilistic models for assessing the impact of salinization and chemical pollutants.
Abstract: Development and rapid population growth have impacted Oman's water resources significantly. Increasing the degradation of groundwater quality by salinization and chemical contaminants threaten primary sources of drinking water, especially in the coastal agricultural areas. Hence, there is a substantial demand in the country for water conservation technology. This...

Edible ethanol byproduct is source of novel foods.
With an increasing percentage of the U.S. corn harvest going to ethanol production, some are questioning the wisdom of taking away corn as food for consumers. USDA-ARS scientists are developing techniques that would at least partially allay that concern. They are creating new foods from an edible byproduct of...

Florida Toasts New 'Environmentally Friendly' Vodka.
ENERGY RESOURCE-17 July 2007-Florida Toasts New 'Environmentally Friendly' Vodka(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com McCormick Distilling Co. and Premier Beverage Co., a wine and spirits distributor in Florida, have launched 360 Vodka, the world's first "environmentally friendly" vodka. While not organic, 360 Vodka uses traditionally harvested local...

Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South.
Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South, by Robert B. Outland III. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 352 pp. $47.95. EARLY TRAVELERS IN THE SOUTH NEVER FAILED TO REMARK UPON THE curious and odoriferous activities of the naval stores workers they...

Travel to bonnie Scotland with WUSF.
It's a land of magnificent castles, renowned malt whisky, dramatic coastlines and one of the world's top arts festivals. If you've always dreamed of going to Scotland, stop dreaming and sign up for WUSF's Tour to Scotland and the famed Edinburgh International Festival. The 10-day trip is scheduled to...

Getting bowzered in early America.
Crooking the elbow was a serious occupation in eighteenth-century America. Visitors to the early republic often expressed astonishment at the amount of spirits that Americans knocked back during an ordinary day. People of the time believed that guzzling plain unadulterated water was unhealthy (as it sometimes was before the...

The Sons of Bardstown: 25 Years in an American Town.
The American military involvement in Vietnam was insidious, beginning inconspicuously with a handful of military advisors in 1950. When it ended a quarter of a century later, Vietnam had reshaped our national life, exhausted our national confidence, and taught us finally to count the costs of power. ...

Long-running rum war between Bacardi, Pernod Ricard shifts to federal courts.
After bouncing from the Patent and Trademark Office to federal courts to Congress to the World Trade Organization, the bitter fight over the Havana Club trademark has finally shifted back to the courtroom. The combatants are Havana Club Holdings (HCH)--a 50-50 venture between the Cuban government and...

Annie Pootoogook wins Sobey award.
At a ceremony held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in early November, Cape Dorset artist Annie Pootoogook received the 2006 Sobey Art Award, presented by ScotiaBank. The $50 000 award, established by the Sobey Art Foundation in 2002, has quickly become Canada's premier award for young artists....