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...become infested with these mysterious insects, which emerge from the ground every 17 years to mate and die. This year, as in previous appearances, their numbers are likely to reach into the millions to the acre. The greatest concentrations are expected in the suburbs of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, where the days will be filled with a cacophony of ticks and buzzes that will wax and wane with the heat of the sun. A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle...
Imagine chowing down cheesecake, feasting on French fries and pigging out on potato chips with little worry about calories. This fat-filled fantasy is still just an overeater's dream, but it moved closer to reality this month when Procter & Gamble dispatched a truck from its Cincinnati headquarters to the Food and Drug Administration in Washington. Its carefully guarded cargo: 30,000 pages of documents detailing tests of a new cholesterol- and calorie- free fat substitute that P&G calls olestra. The shipment included a petition asking the FDA to consider approving the substance's use in deep- fried foods...
...center of all the attention is a class of compounds known as sucrose polyester (SPE). Although that may sound like a new material for leisure suits, SPE looks and tastes like vegetable oil but passes through the body without entering the bloodstream. Research at the University of Cincinnati appears to show that it can reduce a person's existing cholesterol levels. It supposedly satisfies what market researchers call the "mouth-feel" requirement that eludes so many yucky-tasting diet-oriented products. P&G, which has tested olestra on more than 1,800 people in the past 15 years, contends that...
...Willie Mayses are the perennial hope of baseball, which, counting McCovey and Stargell, is completely out of wondrous Willies now and is missing Henry Aaron and Roberto Clemente too. And Frank Robinson and Lou Brock. The widespread news that they have all come back as Eric Davis of the Cincinnati Reds is a prospect more wishful and bountiful than seems humanly possible just 30 games into another season...
Baseball' s perennial hope, the new Willie Mays, arrives in a hail of home runs. Trumpets are blaring for Cincinnati' s Eric Davis...