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Can Science Make Alcohol Safer?

The scion of an Indian pharmaceutical giant spent $35 million to make your martini more liver-friendly. But regulators aren’t raising their glasses just yet.   Read more here, from The Wall Street Journal.

 

Meet the Millennial Who’s Breaking All the Rules of the Wine Industry

Emma Toshack always enjoyed having some wine when she went to the beach or the pool behind her Los Angeles apartment building, but glass containers and public consumption of alcohol weren’t permitted.  To get around the rules, she would pour a $30 bottle into an empty San Pellegrino can.

Now she’s founder and ceo of Namadica, which doesn’t own a vineyard, instead collaborating with winemakers to provide its varietals. The company pays the winemakers a fee up front rather than giving them a percentage of sales.

Toshack says these collaborations keep costs low and allow her to sell a wide variety of wines from different parts of the world. A 187-milliliter can costs $5, the 250-milliliter option sells for either $6 or $7, and a case of 24 cans–the equivalent of about eight bottles of wine–is priced at between $115 and $130.  Read more here, from Inc.

 

In Fundraising Speech, Trump Says He Made Up Trade Claim in Meeting with Justin Trudeau

President Trump boasted in a fundraising speech Wednesday that he made up information in a meeting with the leader of a top U.S. ally, saying he insisted to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the United States runs a trade deficit with its neighbor to the north without knowing whether that was the case.  Read more here, from The Washington Post. 

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