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Like its ad campaign, Surge is a bit of a puzzle. True, the new Coca-Cola product is often likened to Mountain Dew. But its sudden appearance on the market, weird after-taste and suspicious propensity to turn the drinker's mouth green, all deserve examination. Is this simply, as Maximillian Gomez-Trochez '00 put it, "The Coca-Cola attempt to put down those irresponsible Mountain Dewers"? Another example of "porcine capitalism at its worst"? Garish vocabulary aside, Gomez-Trochez has a point which no survivor of Ec 10 can ignore. Surge may just be Coca-Cola's attempt...
McLaughlin is somewhat of a Surge connoisseur herself. "I drink about one a day. But the count goes up when I run out of Mountain Dew. Then it's three or four times a day." By way of explanation, she offers, "I guess I like lemon-lime caffeine things." Gomez-Trochez also consumes the beverage on a fairly regular, though less frequent schedule. "Every time I have to pull an all-nighter or orgo problem set...so one every two weeks on average." And as for the side-effects McLaughlin describes? Gomez-Trochez only notices that he is "peeing...
...need to pull an all-nighter arises, Surge may be the answer. But be fore-warned. As McLaughlin cautions, "It's an acquired taste--it doesn't taste like Mountain Dew." The prevalence of the drink's trademark green and red bottle in vending machine campus-wide, however, means that it's a taste Harvard students may soon acquire...
Just four days earlier, all over the island, faithful citizens had scattered roasted soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...
Good sun imagery--not easy to pull off. And flying dew is way cool...