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...into Castro's hip wound to keep him from bleeding to death. The wound was so massive that his tourniquet was useless. He handed it to Wyatt, who needed two to stanch the blood flowing from his femoral artery. Amid the mayhem, Meinen, who had been manning a 50-cal. machine gun, noticed that he didn't have any feeling in his right foot. "It felt like it had gone to sleep on me, so I picked my foot up and was trying to massage it, trying to get the feeling back," he says. "But then it dawned...
...Sweetener Consumption The report on the safety of sugar substitutes [Sept. 29] incorrectly said that each of us consumes "more than 9 kilograms of fake sugars a year." In fact, Americans annually consume 55 grams of the much sweeter low-cal substitutes, which have the sweetness equivalent of 9 kilograms of sugar...
Harvard is the nation’s fifth most selective school, according to the magazine, trailing MIT, Princeton, Cal-Tech and Yale...
...flavor companies have ways to get around that. A critical element in fatty foods is mouth feel--the creamy, palate-coating character of, say, thick pudding or cheesy lasagna. Scientists can mimic that feel with substances such as starches, polysaccharides or lactones (a natural product of fermentation). These lower-cal alternatives can give food a higher-cal feel. "When you create the impression of fat," says Miller, "you also enhance flavor...
...Crimson traded points with Cal Poly through most of the match, but was never able to break away...