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Connoisseurship apparently knows no limits. Many people who used to ask for whiskey by the brand now do the same with sparkling water. Some may even distinguish among flavors, but not if ice cubes and lime are used. Differences are hard to spot, even when the waters are downed neat, but they do exist, as the chart indicates. Brands of club soda and carbonated mineral water are ranked by preference and rated as follows: four bottles, excellent; three, very good; two, good; one, fair; zero, must suit tastes other than mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rating the Waters | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...game began at 4 p.m., the snow clumped around the base of the backstop at Soldier's Field-evidence of Sunday night's freak storm-looked disconcertingly like the lime lining the basepaths...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Batswomen's One Hit Good Enough to Top Wheaton | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

...talk shows and lecture podiums from New York to Tokyo, and writing a book about her peace initiative (Journey to the Soviet Union). Now Miss Smith is going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street. In it she will play the daughter of Robert Wagner, an insurance investigator and horse breeder who is independently wealthy (Isn't he always?). Samantha's dad Arthur says he gave the parental thumbs-up after meeting Wagner and finding him to be "a family man, pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...made a better-late-than-never decision to put cherry Coke in bottles and cans, in its first flavored variation of the soft drink. When the company measured the popularity of several cola mixtures at the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair, cherry was more popular than lemon-, lime- and vanilla-flavored Cokes. Nonetheless, Coca-Cola will continue test-marketing the new soft drink in three other communities for six months before beginning to sell the beverage nationwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soft Drinks: I Gave My Love a Cherry Coke | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...laid out in the sun to dry. They are then soaked in a solution of water and kerosene, which releases the cocaine contained in the leaves. Peasants stomp on the soaking mixture for several hours to turn it into coca paste, which is then mixed with sulfuric acid, lime, potassium permanganate and more kerosene. The cream-colored substance that is left after the liquid is squeezed out is coca base, the raw material that is sent to refineries to be turned into cocaine. This transformation is accomplished by combining the paste with ether and acetone to remove impurities, and filtering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Powerful Coca Leaf | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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