The champagne glasses have been place away.

The champagne glasses have been place away, the party hats and fake leis tossed disclosed the new calendars put up upon the walls. Welcome 2003, always blooming and inviting the first scarcely any weeks.

For confectioners across the globe, the landscape one time again has changed. Just prior to taking most distant to visit my daughter in Brazil for the Christmas holiday--and ye I was wearing long less clothing and enjoying the sunlight plenteous longer there than in Chicago in mid-December--the just discovereds flashed across the Internet wires that Cadbury Schweppes had, indeed, acquired Pfizer's much-sought-after Adams business.