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  • Thanks to Garrett Oliver, American Craft Beer Comes of Age

    By | Newsmakers – Fri, Feb 15, 2013

    Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster behind the popular craft brand Brooklyn Brewery, did not set out to become one of the nation’s foremost authorities on beer. He simply followed his thirst.
     
    “I got into brewing in order to have beer,” Oliver confesses. After returning to the US from a year in England during the early 1980s, where he’d fallen in love with European beers, “I was like, ‘Oh no.’ There was only this thin yellow liquid to drink” – what Oliver terms “industrial beer.” Lacking Old World beer, he applied a New World solution: “I started making beer at home.”
     
    And did he ever.
     
    After home-brewing and learning his craft at other brewers, Oliver joined Brooklyn Brewery as brewmaster -- its ‘chef’ -- in 1994. Since then, he’s been one of a group of young American craft brewers who have led a vital and thriving American craft brewing industry.
     
    Oliver says the growth of American craft brewing was “absolutely exponential. When I started professionally in 1989…craft beer was pretty much

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  • Saving The World From Asteroids

    By | Newsmakers – Mon, Feb 11, 2013

    Ed Lu, who has spent seven months of his life in space, can sometimes sound nonchalant about it. But he’s really not.

    "Yes, they managed to kick me off the planet three times," he said in a Newsmakers interview with ABC News and Yahoo! News. Lu, chosen as a NASA astronaut in 1994, flew twice on American space shuttle flights, and then spent six months on the International Space Station.

    "It was awesome, best office in the world, view can’t be beat, the work is interesting,” Lu joked. "The food’s good, but it gets boring.”

    These days, Lu spends a fair amount of his time worrying about protecting the planet he got to see from afar.  Having left NASA in 2007 to work for Google and other technology companies, he is now CEO of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates action to prevent errant asteroids from hitting Earth.

    Asteroids? Death from the sky? Yes, says Lu, the chances may be small -- but it’s a small chance of a big catastrophe, and that’s something worth our

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