Tunnell's vision: an Oregon winemaker trades news for world-class Pinot.
"As long as I was in Iran or Chad, I was happy," says Doug Tunnell of his early years as a foreign correspondent for CBS. But world events and compromises took their toll, and he had to extract himself from network news. Turns out it's Oregon that makes him...

Sommelier's love of wine leads her to job's pinnacle.
Virginia Philips, chef sommelier at The Breakers Palm Beach (Fla.), took her dislike of beer and turned it into a career. "I started drinking wine in college, took a wine class and got very interested," she said. "It was very fascinating. I always continued with wine, read...

Le Club holds French wine fest.
The Le Club French Business Association of the Philippines will hold the Beaujolais Nouveau Wine Festival on Nov. 23, 6:30 p.m. at the NBC Tent, Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. The festival, the biggest social event of the French business community in the country, signals the harvest...

High air pressure, humidity mark 'stroke weather'. (Ischemic Stroke Risk).
DENVER -- "Stroke weather" appears to be a real phenomenon, Dr. Dominique Minier said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. A 14-year longitudinal study charting local weather conditions in relation to 3,289 first-time strokes in Dijon, France, has linked specific meteorologic patterns with...

Barge-touring through France.
What it's like on a leisurely cruise through Burgundy's scenic waterways September 25, Dijon. Arrive harbor at 2 P.M. Carol and Charlotte bike to buy bread, vin du pays (and naturally, in Dijon, moutarde) while Glenn and Lyndy watch our barges get scrubbed for the journey down...

Cruel March.
MARCH was the cruelest month for the French Socialist Party (PS). "Disaster," and "Bitter Voters Reject PS," said the newspapers, with the characteristic delicacy of French headline-writing, as the PS obtained less than 20 per cent of the vote for the first time since 1971. What these elections showed...

AJR ASKS.
If you weren't in journalism, what would you be doing? ANN O'NEILL, courts reporter, Los Angeles Times "I would be a trial lawyer because I cover the courts and the two disciplines are so interrelated.... I thought about law school but realized that my lawyer...

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THE WORLD, OF COURSE, IS GETTING smaller, as people like to say. Money moves from country to country instantaneously, markets are multinational instead of regional, countries are merging their interests into single entities like the European Union, the Internet will soon push along more valuable cargo in a single...

RESOURCES.
18 R&D "Just Let Her Fly" and "Here Comes the Plutonium," by Josie Glausiusz; "Be Fruitful, Die Young" and "What's Going Down," by Jessica Gorman; "Lion-Lizard Combo Found" and "Drinking Data," by Shanti Menon; "What's Going Up," "Spin, Baby, Spin," and "Why NASA Seems To Be Everywhere...

THE CHEMISTRY OF ... Wine Making.
Is dirt destiny? Do the French know what they're doing? Terroir. Tairrrr-wahrrrr. Roll those r's around your mouth as a Frenchman would. Gargle softly with them; squirt them through your teeth and from one cheek to the other, as if they were a 1990 Chambertin. Then go...