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Sep 25, 9:38 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Myriam CHAPLAIN RIOU 09/25/19 AT 9:12 AM Amid the rolling green expanse of France's prestigious Burgundy wine lands there is an unusual sight: shiny police helmets bobbing between rows of vines.Mounted on bikes and motorcycles, these gendarmerie officers are entrusted with shielding Burgundy's celebrated wine grapes from thieves.Day and night they criss-cross the vineyards looking for raiders, both large-scale and small, who pose a perpetual threat to France's viticulturists."The damage is enormous," said Vincent Gros, who heads the Gros Frere et Soeur wine estate in the Cote d'Or region that hosts the central French region's most exclusive wines.Sometimes just a bunch is stolen here and there, sometimes several rows or entire blocks of grapes, lamented 32-year-old Gros, who said he had installed security cameras in isolated fields."The presence of the police … [Read more...] about Cop Au Vin: French Police On Patrol To Protect Vineyards

Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page By Britt Peterson Globe Correspondent  December 14, 2014 In 2014, the American Heritage Dictionaries added 500 new words and meanings to its authoritative record of American English, including “clickbait,” “cosplay,” and “social anxiety disorder.” The words come from all kinds of domains, from pop culture to obscure scientific specialties. But as always, a particularly rich source of new language is the food world, which delivers a wide bounty of lexical delicacies every year.So, welcome to the dictionary, “banh mi,” “halloumi,” “mochi,” and “saison”! A Vietnamese sandwich served on baguette, a brined Cypriot cheese, a Japanese treat made from rice paste, and a fruity Belgian ale may have little in common as foods, but they sure give a good picture of the established food trends of … [Read more...] about Hello, banh mi! How food words join the dictionary

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Yelp and Facebook can be great promotional tools for small businesses looking to get footholds in crowded markets. They can also turn into raging battlefields teeming with tens of thousands of angry Americans. That seems to be the case for the Red Hen, the upscale farm-to-table eatery in Lexington, Virginia, that booted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over the weekend. On Monday morning, President Donald Trump led the charge on Twitter, blasting the Red Hen for its allegedly "filthy canopies, doors and windows." But the backlash went into high gear on Yelp, where detractors swarmed the restaurant's public listing and flooded it with one-star ratings and politically charged comments. Yelp was apparently forced to lock down the page, concealing the most recent ratings and reviews with a graphic that said "Active Cleanup Alert." The activity on the … [Read more...] about This restaurant booted Sarah Sanders. Then came the digital pitchforks.

Leading the NewsLibyaOn August 13th, the latest round of the United Nations (U.N.)-facilitated Libyan political dialogue concluded in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), the parties reiterated their conviction that there can be no alternative to peace in Libya outside the U.N. dialogue process. In addition, UNSMIL reported participants emphasized the need to set aside partisan agendas and uphold the country’s higher national interests and underscored their determination to conclude the dialogue process as soon as possible, with a target date within the coming three weeks. The conclusion of the latest round of talks was noted here.On August 14th, Reuters reported around 37 people have been killed in clashes between Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters and a Salafist Muslim group battling for control of Sirte. Fighting began last week when the Salafist Muslim group attacked ISIL militants in the area, accusing them of … [Read more...] about U.N. Support Mission in Libya, World Health Organization and more: Africa Update for August 20, 2015

For the victims of Hurricane Katrina, perhaps the truest measure of the catastrophe is that everything came apart at once.Even those who were not physically harmed face a daunting list of problems that must be addressed before their lives can fully be put back together. And with all those problems jockeying for at­ten­tion, it’s difficult to know exactly where to start picking up the pieces.“When the waters recede, so to speak, people realize they have all these issues and need to put their lives together,” says Rani Newman Mathura, a lawyer in Greenwich, Conn., who serves as coordinator of the Disaster Legal Services Team for the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division, which has provided extensive assistance in the Gulf Coast region affected by Hurricane Katrina.The difficulty for victims, Mathura says, is that “you’re dealing with the unknown and a loss of control. Ab­solutely everything is up in the air.”Further complicating efforts to … [Read more...] about Long Road to Recovery