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At £12 per ounce, Kopi Luwak is the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world, but could a drink made out of cat droppings possibly be to everyone's taste?After the disclosure last week that the world's most luxurious coffee is produced via the intestines of the Indonesian civet cat, connoisseurs and regular coffee drinkers assembled to test whether its flavour is really so superior. One of the first participants in the experiment, conducted at the Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee in London, was Denise Basso, a 32-year-old designer. She was told only that she was tasting the world's...

SHE is not standing for president, but Senator Hillary Clinton’s reluctance to be drawn into the 2004 race for the White House has not stopped her becoming a prime target in President George W Bush’s rapidly accelerating campaign for re-election. Republican strategists last week launched a new fundraising appeal that singled out Clinton’s “ambition and prolific fundraising” as the main danger to the party’s majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. In an apparent attempt to exploit conservative disgust with the success of Clinton’s newly published autobiography, Living History, Republicans are warning that neither Bush’s re-election nor...