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Soda lovers, before your next gulp, consider this: A preliminary report on men suggests that drinking 4 1/2 cans a day of fructose-filled pop may cause the body to lose calcium and phosphorus--two minerals essential for strong bones...
...Bill Gates doesn't already have enough annoyances, the dark-horse challenge to Windows posed by Java, Sun Microsystems' Web-friendly programming language, is actually looking, gulp, kind of real. This week the 15,000-odd software developers who are gathered at the annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco will hear that Sun is releasing its long-promised JavaStation this Thursday. The sleek, stripped-down machine, which grabs from the networks whatever programs and files it needs, has attracted early corporate adopters like Saab and Allied Signal. How wide a market it will reach with a price tag north...
...rest of the market. Does that make new acquisitions too costly? "I suppose that depends," McColl drawls, "on how skilled you are at taking costs out of the new combined company." Last year saw a record 72 bank acquisitions valued at more than $100 million apiece. The big gulp: a $16.5 billion deal by First Union--McColl's crosstown Charlotte rival--to acquire Philadelphia-based CoreStates Financial. That topped McColl's $15.5 billion buyout of Barnett Banks in Florida...
Stage movements added little to Unwound's already dry personality. Rumsey would occasionally break from his steady position for a gulp of beer. Trosper would often wince or bob up and down while emoting over some random, nonsensical lyric. Even drummer Sara Lund's top-heavy noggin kept her head perpetually lopsided; combined with an empty, stunned gaze, Lund provided quite the unsettling image...
...lives, we will no longer have rules put upon us by our parents or professors; we will have to create them for ourselves. We will no longer have a community of friends around us at all times. And for most of us, there is that nagging little issue of (gulp) money...