Duppongs grow wine grapes on Dakota farm Bismarck Tribune, USA - By late afternoon and on into the wee hours, the Duppongs were sorting grapes into a hand- crank rotary press that destemed and crushed them for winemaking. ...

Thomas Caldwell: A Yankee's view of the meltdown - column Laconia Citizen, NH - They were great times: When someone fell behind on a payment, the lenders could crank up the interest rate and make even more money. ...

Washington Post Irish Blarney: Notes from the UNC game Chicago Tribune, United States - "Because I think that is such an emotional loss that I think whoever we would play this week, it would be tough this week to crank them back up. ... Irish handle tough loss to North Carolina

Attack The Radical BlackAthlete.net - As objectively as possible, cornerback Adam Jones may well be "ignorant past burned fires," but to crank him up as a perpetual target for ridicule without ...

Times Online Richard Garriott and his father, Owen Times Online, UK - So we were down two out of four, and Nasa were concerned enough to crank up a rescue mission and put it on the launch pad although it turned out that it ...

Auto rickshaw driver Rakesh Malhotra has picked up enough Japanese ... Indian Express, India - Later, I crank out a string of phrases such as doko e ikkismas ka (where do you have to go?) and koni kiwa (how are you?) to break the ice, smiles Malhotra ...

Wall Street Journal What History Tells Us About the Market Wall Street Journal - "We can't quantify anything. I really don't want to make predictions, so this is nothing but an intuition." But Prof. Shiller is hardly a crank . ...

Body of Lies: Crank call Toronto Star, Canada - ... the novel Penetration by Washington Post writer David Ignatius) would choose to make their film more about technology than about human ingenuity. ...

Time to crank up the oven Chicago Sun-Times, United States - ... and cheats from the experts. ?206-140? cup equals a small handful or a large egg AP If you buy just one new baking book this season, make it this one. ...

Crank's claws: 'Meth monster' digs in, can be virtually impossible Mercury-Register, CA - "Making crank is simple. If you can follow a recipe to make a cake, you can make crank ," said Sturdy. He said a collection of incompetent cookers are ...