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A clever beer name--Smooth Hoperator and Baby Got Bock are classics--can make a good brew even more appealing. But it can also lead to trouble, if unintentionally. A Texas brewer offended Marshall Islanders by naming one of its beers Bikini Atoll, after the site of extensive U.S. nuclear testing from 1946 to 1958. Bikini remains uninhabitable because of high levels of radiation, and islanders are still dealing with health problems decades later. North Carolina is preventing a Utah brewer from selling its Polygamy...