Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motley group of more than 12,000 runners will gather in Hopkinton late in the morning on April 20. This, the Athlete's Village (known in non-marathon times as the Hopkinton High School), will offer food, drink and rest areas to the runners. Don't attempt to crash the party, though--it's participants only in the Village...
...appeal of this bastard child of 7-Up and Jolt? A sinister picture is painted by Elliot T. Weiss '99. "Maybe in another attempt to corner some area of the market, they left some ingredient off." The hypothesis hearkens back to the rumors that the soft drink Coca-Cola had a little something extra in it's original formula to attract and then addict its buyers. "Maybe it's some government conspiracy tested in small towns," Weiss adds. "I suddenly saw Surge a year ago in a rural town in the Carolinas." It seems the drink was given a trial...
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...
...Surge's effectiveness as a highly caffeinated beverage should not be doubted, (loose bladders and increased libido aside). Weiss recalls, "It did work driving from Boston to Miami straight." No-doze in a bottle, perhaps? Those more accustomed to caffeine might find the drink less potent, however. McLaughlin reports little effect on her alertness after drinking Surge. She notes, though, that her "caffeine tolerance is ridiculously high...
...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...