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...dubious utility, including an amphibious tank; but his sheep farm never turned a profit. He invested millions more buying a gold mine; but it produced little gold. With all the financial savvy of an eighth-generation royal, Jah once chartered a plane just to bring a can of hydraulic fluid to his farm. Although his business ventures flopped, Jah was enjoying himself immensely. He bought a mansion in Perth, and converted a minesweeper into a giant luxury yacht. When his Turkish wife left him, unwilling to live on a farm, Jah married an Australian-who would also leave...
...told who's getting which drug (or in this case, which drink) at any given time. But if you have ever tasted Gatorade and Accelerade, you might wonder whether the athletes could really have been fooled. It's not clear whether that knowledge could influence either performance or fluid retention, of course, but stranger things have happened...
What's most noteworthy here is that both studies acknowledge that for serious athletes, sports drinks are significantly better than water. In addition to supplying energy and replenishing electrolytes, Gatorade and Accelerade deliver more fluid to dried-out cells than plain water does. The Sport Nutrition study says Accelerade beats Gatorade on that score by 15%--important if you're an élite athlete, maybe, but for most of us, not a crucial difference. Also, Accelerade is a bit more expensive and, in my opinion, not quite as tasty as Gatorade, which I sometimes drink just because I like...
...What social or technical features would you like to see enter the world of blogging? I'd really like to see it become as easy as talking to a group of people... I would like it to be more fluid. There is this Web comic called Shooting War; it got picked up in the Village Voice and it's this really cool web comic about blogging in 2011 in Iraq. The war is still going on and the blogger does everything by video because it's easier than typing. The fact of it is that the Web comic shows...
...With the higher terrorism alert,] the only fluid now being allowed onboard a plane is baby formula. The passengers took a vote and said they'd rather be blown up than hear a baby scream for six hours." BILL MAHER...