I didn't know which way I was going to die-run through, conked or poisoned.

It's the same seduction that one first feels when touching cashmere or fur, ... Nobody touches fur once, or cashmere once. With wine, you want to keep it in your mouth, you want to play with it, you want to roll it around until you get it.

There's a world of sparkling wine that doesn't come from that tiny place called Champagne...You may be pouring a lot of bubbles this season, but that doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of money.

If [West Nile] goes that route, then it would be a situation where it's sort of oscillating. Every few years we'd have an outbreak or some cases and then maybe not much activity between years.

[Scientists are looking at] potential long-term negative effects of having been infected, maybe not even being really sick -- maybe having a mild headache and other sorts of things -- but still having some minor neurological problems for extended periods of time. As it's better studied, it seems there're more reports of that sort of thing out there.

Eradication is probably not something we talk about in regard to mosquito-borne diseases right now. If anything disappears it will probably be on its own accord and not because we've directly been trying to eradicate it.