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...continuing the consumption of diet soda with that of returning to ordinary high-calorie drinks. For starters, he writes in Science, he used projections made from the Canadian study. These showed that there would be 1,200 extra bladder cancers a year if each person in the U.S. drank one twelve-ounce diet drink per day for his entire life. Then Cohen divided the total number of cancers in the population by the total number of drinks. He multiplied the result by an average reduction of life expectancy due to cancer-of 20 years. In that way, he determined that...
That night the four of us dined together in Jim's cabin, drank wine, ate peanuts and watched the pine and spruce wood fire while we ran our bare feet through the deep shag rug. Jim and Mary Lyn did most of the talking. They talked mainly about the Junior Patrol, to which they had both belonged, and about some of the people on it: Peter Fader, who saved a man's life once, Joe Ward, the hottest skier at Winter Park, and Bob Patterson, the patrol leader before Jim, Jim's best friend on the patrol, and Mary...
Many employees openly admit to doing nothing to earn their pay. For a year and a half, a statistician at HUD earning $13,000 a year, and four equally idle coworkers, drank coffee, pondered crossword puzzles and listened to the radio. "Our supervisors were always telling us to look busy," she says. "But there's only so much you can pretend when you haven't got a damn thing...
...celebrated phenomenon known as "the three-martini lunch" came up before the House Ways and Means Committee last week, and Republican Congressman Richard T. Schulze of Pennsylvania wanted to know if the witness actually had ever been to a business lunch where anyone drank three martinis. "Not if I had any control over it," answered Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal...
...month before his physical, Dave started to stuff himself. He ate constantly, with a preference for greasy, fatty food. "It's not hard to get a lot of grease if you eat at the school cafeteria," he said. He also drank large quantities of beer...