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17 CHICAGO TRIBUNE WORLD SECTION1 Sister Therese invested wholeheartedly in a religious life of prayer, service, and simplicity. At 91, still at it. Her community, like many others nationwide, asks for your help with high costs of elder care. Please Share in the Care of donations to the National Religious Retirement Office aid religious institutes. www.retiredreligious.org To donate: National Religious Retirement 3211 Fourth Street NE, Washington DC 20017 Make your check payable to Retirement Fund for Religious.

Give at your local Catholic parish on December Sister Therese of the Infant Jesus Dugre, 91, Discalced Carmelite Nun United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington DC. All Rights Reserved. Photographer Jim Judkis. Chicagoland Christmas Campaign 1-800-SAL-ARMY(725-2769) www.salarmychicago.org YES! Here is my Christmas Campaign gift to bring food, toys, clothing and shelter to needy Chicagoland children: $25for toys $50for warm clothes and shelter $35for food where needed most NAME ADDRESS P.O. Box 4121 Carol Stream, IL 60197-4121 Hundreds of children in the Chicagoland area are at risk of being forgotten this holiday unless you and I do something.

Just one a Christmas meal. Is that too much for a poor child to ask for? In some parts of the world, perhaps. But not in Chicago. We have a strong tradition of taking care of our at Christmas. Will you help your Salvation Army deliver new bikes, toys, food, and clothing to needy children this holiday season? Wepromise to stretch your contribution to do the most and let the children know they been forgotten.

Chicago is the City of Broad Shoulders. And Christmas is our time to show it. Please forget the poor this Christmas. 08ADMTUMU4 By Craig Whitlock The Washington Post WEIMAR, Germany the German version of the chicken-or-the-egg conundrum: Which was regulated first, beer or bratwurst? For centuries, brewers seemed to have history on their side. As evidence, they cited the renowned Reinheitsgebot, the Bavarian beer purity law of 1516, which stipulated barley, hops and water as the only permissible ingredients in the German national drink.

But thanks to Hubert Erz- mann, a 75-year-old amateur historian, sausage lovers are crowing these days. Digging in the Weimar city archives, Erz- mann unearthed a yellowed, handwritten parchment from 1432 that laid down the law regarding the production of Thu- ringian Rostbratwurst, perhaps the most popular variety of sausage in a country where wurst is worshiped as sacred grub. The official document decreed that bratwurst from this corner of Thuringia, today a central German state, be made only from pork. Forbidden were beef, internal organs, parasites and anything rancid. Although the regulations might not sound revolutionary, wurst aficionados have described the bratwurst purity law as a holy find, almost as significant to German culture as a Gutenberg Bible.

Look what I soon as I found it, I ran to the director of the archive and said, Look what I recalled Erzmann, who has haunted the archives for years in hopes of such a discovery. Food purity laws hold a revered place in the German soul. When the modern German nation was formed in 1871, Bavaria joined on condition that its beer purity rules be applied to the entire country. Even today, spoiled-meat outbreaks are a national scandal and consumer protection is considered among the most important functions of government. medieval regulations in Germany were incredibly said Michael Kirchschlag- er, who writes about Thurin- gian culture.

you think of the Middle Ages, you think the food necessarily that safe. But the hygiene in many ways was better than A replica of the bratwurst purity law is to be enshrined at the German Bratwurst Museum (www.bratwurstmuseum.net), about 25 miles away in Holzhausen, a village whose main intersection is marked by a giant sausage-and-bun sculpture. The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened last year and is packed with exhibits describing the social and political history of the famous wurst. Jailhouse feat: 28,000 brats Visitors learn that Hans Stromer ate 28,000 bratwursts during a long stint in jail in the 16th Century. also a corner dedicated to Karl Sterzing, a fleischermeister or butcher, from the village of Grossbreitenbach, who grilled an estimated 2 million bratwursts at his home between 1945 and 1985.

first question most visitors always ask about our museum is said Uwe Keith, president of the board. just that Thuringian Rostbratwurst is such a part of life Thuringian bratwurst is distinguished from the other 41 varieties of German bratwurst mainly by its distinctive spices (marjoram, garlic, sometimes a bit of lemon) and its fat content (25 percent, compared with up to 60 percent for greasier cousins). It also should be cooked and eaten within 24 hours after it is stuffed in the casing. The sausage is generally between 6to 7inches long and served on a very small crusty bread roll, the main purpose of which is to keep your fingers off the meat. It is traditionally served with mustard, though barbarians sometimes top it with ketchup.

Thuringian bratwurst must be roasted or grilled. To fry it is a sin. Erzmann said he discovered the bratwurst document in 2000. But its existence was kept largely under wraps until this fall, when it was publicized in a book and by the bratwurst museum. Erzmann foundanother document that may further roil the beer versus bratwurst debate.

a beer purity law from the city of Weissensee, and while not entirely clear when it was written, he said it dates to years after the Weimar bratwurst regulations. Although Erzmann maintains his scholarly objectivity, he gave a hint about his personal feelings on which came first. have an old saying in he said. or shine, we stuff our faces with Germany learns the wurst was first Washington Post photo by Craig Whitlock Thuringian Rostbratwurst, served on a small bun, has been produced and sold in Weimar and other German cities for centuries. It is considerably less fatty than its 41 German bratwurst kin.

Nation of beer lovers told bratwurst purity law emerged in 1432 By Kim Gamel and Hamza Hendawi Associated Press holding five Britons demanded Tuesday that Britain pull all its forces from Iraqand posteda videotape showing a bearded, haggard-looking man more than six months after the group was kidnapped. The purported hostage, speaking clearly with a British accent, identified himself as and gave the date as more than two weeks ago. A sign in Arabic identified the captors as The Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq. name is Jason. Today is Nov.

he said. have been here now for 173 days and I feel we have been No other hostage was shown. A written statement featured on the video, aired by Al-Arabi- ya television, accused Britain of plundering the wealth of Iraq and demanded that British troops leave within 10 days. It did not say what would happen if the deadline was not met or when the countdown begins. Foreign Office condemned the broadcast, saying it only to add to the distress of the families and British officials have not released the names of the kidnapped menand have requested that their identities not be disclosed by the media.

On May 29, about 40 gunmen in police uniforms and driving vehicles used by Iraqi security forces grabbed the four security contractors and a computer consultant from an Iraqi Finance Ministry compound. Suspicion has fallen on Shiite splinter groups that the United States believes have been trained and funded by Iran. Also Tuesday, government acknowledged that it cannot handle a massive return of refugees, as the UN announced an $11 million relief package to help the most vulnerable Iraqi families. The return of refugees is a politically charged issue in this country, where the embattled government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is eager to point to recent military gains against Al Qaeda in Iraq and other militants as evidence that Iraq is now a relatively safe place. But the U.S.

military has warned that a huge return of refugees could rekindle sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites and that some returnees have found their Baghdad homes occupied by members of the other Muslim sect. reality, the ministry cannot absorb a return on that Iraqi Migration Minister Abdul-Samad Rahman said at a news conference. the influx is huge, then neither the ministry nor the entire government can handle Northeast of suicide bomber blew himself up after approaching Iraqi and Kurdish security forces near a police station, killing at least eight people and wounding 30, police and hospital officials said. The attack took place in Jalu- la, a religiously mixed city in Diyala province, a former Al Qaeda in Iraq stronghold that has seen a dramatic turnaround. Purported tape of captive Briton airs on Iraq TV Al-Arabiya TV via AP This image from video purports to show one of five British hostages taken in May.

In Thuringia, each man, woman and child consumes an average of 60 bratwursts a year, according to the German Bratwurst Museum. The bratwurst industry in the state employs about 18,000 people. And the public hospital in the town of Bad Berka mandates that all patients and staff be served bratwurst for breakfast every Monday. Brat boasts Product: CTMAIN PubDate: 12-05-2007 Zone: ALL Edition: HD Page: 1-17 User: sjnovak Time: Color:.