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...armed with a frothy $52 million celebrity ad campaign and a cartful of new milk beverages, the $14 billion industry is battling to reverse the tide of fluid milk's 30-year decline, defend itself from the onslaught of iced teas and designer waters and reformulate its homogenous image...
...ValuJet plane, the FAA has gone out of its way to show its safety-mindedness. The latest step: last week the agency ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s in service were to be checked within 10 days. No travel delays are expected...
...second meal Woolf describes, at a women's college, consists of a "plain gravy soup," stringy beef "with its attendant greens and potatoes--a homely trinity," prunes "exuding a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth for eighty years and yet not given to the poor," custard to mitigate the prunes and biscuits so dry as to require jugs of water to wash them down. After this unsettling meal, she speculates, "We are all probably going to heaven, and Vandyck is, we hope, to meet us round the next corner--that...
Bessette walked down the aisle, wearing a fluid, bias-cut dress of pearl-white crepe. A panel floated from the waist in the back, in a suggestion of a train. She wore a veil of silk tulle, and her crystal-beaded satin sandals were from Manolo Blahnik, designer of pricey, fashionable shoes. In her hands, covered by long white gloves, she carried a small bouquet of lilies of the valley. The groom wore a dark blue single-breasted suit, designed by Gordon Henderson, with a white pique vest and pale blue silk tie. His boutonniere was made of cornflowers...
...they had to wait for his lungs to clear. The bottom part of both lungs had begun to fill with fluid. In the past, doctors had no way of removing that fluid, and the patient would die of pneumonia. "They clear the lungs through repeated suctioning," says Reeve. "They stick a tube right down into your lungs and pull out the liquid. You can't feel down to your lungs, but you can feel the tube go down your throat...