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...Fraunhofer of the University of Maryland Dental School decided to find out. Fraunhofer and dental student Matthew Rogers took 20 healthy teeth extracted for orthodontic or periodontal reasons, cut them into tiny blocks of tooth enamel and exposed the blocks to a variety of popular soft drinks, including Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Canada Dry ginger ale and canned Arizona iced tea. All the drinks weakened or permanently destroyed the enamel. Diet sodas were just as bad as regular sodas, and canned iced tea caused 30 times the damage of fresh-brewed tea or coffee. The worst offenders...
...additional $98 million to renovate gyms and soccer fields. The Iraqis are used to such shortfalls; Uday diverted Olympic money to his palaces and planes. But in the post-Saddam era, the N.O.C.I. has truly embraced the Olympic ideals: Citius (Swifter)! Altius (Higher)! And now Consortium (Let Coke and Nike pay the bills...
...some getting used to, things that even Kerry's hyperefficient team of more than 100 lawyers and vetters missed--like the fact that Edwards has something of a substance-abuse problem. "You ask me what I've learned [about Edwards]?" Kerry said. "This man drinks a lot of Diet Coke." The North Carolinian who would be a caffeine-and-sodium-buzzed heartbeat away from the presidency subsequently admitted that "on a good day" he has been known to open four before noon, at which point Kerry pronounced himself stunned, seized the can from Edwards and started reading the nutrition label...
...many ways, Nardelli has finally come into his own. Local businesspeople say he has joined the ranks of Atlanta's insiders, notably when he was elected to Coca-Cola's board of directors in 2002. Though Coke's board has been criticized after management missteps, it is still the city's corporate crown jewel. "Among Bob's peers it was an important recognition," Blank says. Nardelli was host to about 200 prominent conservatives last month at a $3.2 million fund raiser for President Bush in his 10-bedroom mansion...
...born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...