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...Lemonade. This drink cools you off not simply because it's cold liquid served with ice, but because of some mysterious chemistry between lemon, sugar and the human tongue. A lemon is, well, a cool fruit...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

Variations: You can buy colorful plastic cubes with liquid inside at some gourmet stores. The idea is that they don't water down your drink or ruin the taste...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

Then the third sip makes your entire body realize that the liquid you have just been drinking tastes exactly like three-week-old Cambridge sewer water (yes, it's really that...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Crystal Pepsi-The Wrong One, Baby | 5/26/1993 | See Source »

...this the time to get out of stocks? In spite of the danger signs, few Wall Street gurus foresee a sharp downturn anytime soon, as long as interest rates stay low. That's because investors still have plenty of liquid funds left: they hold nearly $3 trillion in low-yielding investments like bank CDs and are likely to continue moving them into stocks. Even if share prices start to tumble, experts say, fund managers and cash-rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Will the Bull Run? | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

BATTERIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE ACHILLES' HEEL of electric cars; you can make one that's rugged, but it's bound to be too heavy, too bulky and unable to store enough electricity. Or you can make a lightweight, efficient battery using a liquid containing lithium salts as the energy-storage medium, and risk leakage or fire in the case of an accident. Now three Arizona State University chemists have an answer that is literally a clever solution. By dissolving lithium not into liquid but into polymer (plastic), they have paved the way for a high-power battery that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Batteries With Bounce | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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