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This same phenomenon could explain similar results in recent studies of dieters, says Pierce. Two years ago, scientists at the University of Texas reported in an eight-year study that for every can of diet soda that a person drank, he raised his risk of being overweight by 41%, compared to a 30% increase in drinkers of regular, sugared drinks. Earlier this year, another study of diet-soda drinkers came to a similar conclusion, this time about metabolic syndrome, the dangerous constellation of risk factors, such as obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance, that increases the likelihood of heart disease...
...Outside, the summer afternoon waned. Cicadas whirred. We drank tea and talked. Yuan's daughter came out to play. Some workers arrived to install an extra bed. Then we left with all the usual polite exchanges. Understandably, Yuan didn't step over the lintel to see us out, as usually happens in China. On our way to the front gate, we passed the policeman, who had found himself a folding chair and was slumped in it, Buddha belly bulging. He waved to us and called out a cheery...
...successful mission would have generated for the Hilton the kind of lurid publicity that another upscale Mayfair hotel recently garnered. It was in the nearby Millennium Hotel, last November, that Berezovsky's former employee Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian-born British citizen, drank tea contaminated with the radioactive isotope polonium-210, which killed him. British investigators identified as their prime suspect Andrei Lugovoi, like Litvinenko, a former kgb man. Moscow has turned down London's request for Lugovoi's extradition...
...World cachet is key. "Younger drinkers seem to have decided that aged rum is a statement about their generation," says Olly Wehring, executive editor of the London-based Just-Drinks report. "Cognacs and aged whiskeys are what their parents drank." David Longfield, an editor at Drinks International in London, agrees. Aged rum "has a hip, even naughty aspect that Cognac tends to lack." Matusalem (a Spanish variation of Methuselah), for instance, uses a recipe smuggled out of Cuba after the 1959 revolution. The company's sales in Spain, one of the hottest aged-rum markets, are expected to double this...
...debuting July 19) is set just after the creation of the revolutionary "Think Small" Volkswagen ad campaign, a time widely considered to be Madison Avenue's golden age. "Admen were the rock stars of that era," Weiner says. "They had creative jobs, they earned a lot of money, they drank a lot. There was this real cowboy image...