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...vacuous Linda Ronstadt chews gum, is learning to live alone, sometimes takes uppers for concerts, wore jeans (good God!) to an Inaugural celebration and in general acts and talks like an addlepated twelve-year...
...very least, the FDA'S action will probably force a sharp change in the eating and drinking habits of many Americans. Such products as diet jams and jellies, sugarless chewing gum and even some familiar toothpaste tastes will have to be drastically altered. Sweet 'n Low and other sugar substitutes may vanish from the table, forcing dieting coffee and tea drinkers to take their favorite brew straight-or with sugar. Leading soft-drink manufacturers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are promising to continue marketing diet drinks, presumably by reducing sugar content of some beverages, resorting to sweeteners like...
...aspartame, was found by G.D. Searle & Co. during research on an ulcer drug. The FDA had approved aspartame's sale, but stayed that action pending a new look at Searle's test data. Another contender to succeed saccharin is a chemical called xylitol; used as a chewing-gum sweetener in tests in Finland and the U.S., it sharply reduced formation of cavities. But it costs more than sugar and has the same number of calories...
They have been likened to bubble gum beehives, musculatured mushrooms, humanoid terrariums, lunar campsites, shingled igloos and plastic puffballs. By whatever designation, but for every good reason, the geodesic dome home is finally winning acceptance and approbation...
...Neill, it has forsworn its vulgar and unreliable ways. It covers serious news seriously, where once it was prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing cynicism, as well as those headlines that popped at you like bubble gum, all of which made the News the subway straphanger's bible and the cabby's handbook. Until now Murdoch has done little more than to add gossip and horse-racing tips to the Post, but, feeling the competition, the News is recapturing some of its own past liveliness, without sacrificing...