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Kevin Costner doesn't just play water heroes in costly movies. He has sent $700,000 worth of liquid-separating equipment from Costner Industries Nevada Corp. to help clear up an oil spill in Japan. The firm also wants to show off the technology. "We can't get to use it here," says Dan Costner, Kevin's big brother, who runs...
...JUICE? Preschoolers who guzzle as little as 12 oz. of fruit juice a day tend to be fatter or shorter than their peers. Why? At the expense of more nutritious foods, kids fill up on liquid that's packed with sugars, albeit natural ones...
...members of other wealthy families, O'Malley may have felt the tug of the next generation, which often needs to put checking accounts ahead of box scores. Says Bob Graziano, the Dodgers' vice president of finance: "Peter and Terry combined have 13 children. A baseball team is not very liquid for those people." Left the team as part of an estate, the O'Malley beneficiaries would pay an estate tax of 55% on all assets after the first $5 million, as opposed to a capital gains tax of about 28% on profits from selling the team...
...pediatric trials so far, the news is promising. Many children are rebounding. But conducting those tests is complicated, since most protease inhibitors are available only as capsules, not in liquid form, which is more suitable for kids. At St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, researchers open the capsules and mix the bitter medicine with food. "This is not the best way to do it," says Dr. Walter Hughes, who heads the AIDS clinical-trial unit. "But if you have a child who is going to die in six months, you take those chances...
Another night spent digging out the last liquid remnants of my roommate's white-out may spell my doom. If I have to ask for another recommendation commenting on the "suitability of my proposal," I may explode. Don't I deserve better than this? I go to Harvard...