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...neighboring Kazakhstan between the government of authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev and British energy giant BG Group. On July 19, citing the results of a March audit, Kazakhstan's financial police accused the company's local subsidiary, BG Karachaganak, of failing to pay $5.4 million in customs duties on liquid natural gas it produced between 2001 and 2003 and sold to buyers in Russia. BG says the charges are completely unfounded, and last week CEO Frank Chapman downplayed the allegations, calling them a "routine dispute." Still, the move has spooked investors who fear that Nazarbayev may be stealing a page from...
...diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat--if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...
About 5% of our corn is refined to high-fructose corn syrup, which is cheaper, sweeter and, because it is a liquid, easier to transport and mix into foods than sugar. Beverage and food manufacturers see that low price as a signal to use the high-fructose cocktail in virtually everything, substituting it for more nutritious ingredients--not just for sugar--in peanut butter, fruit juices and spaghetti sauce...
...liquid used in the flamethrower [for training] had always been a pinkish-red in color and had a consistency similar to warm Jell-O. As we made ready for what we thought would be just another practice run, and as I filled my tanks, I saw that the liquid was not the usual Jell-O--like substance. What I was pumping was a mucus-like liquid both in color and consistency. I realized that morning that the invasion...
Nearly 30 years ago, a Texan named Vernon Reed made a necklace with a liquid-crystal display at the center. By 1990, after a series of one-off LCD jewelry creations, he quit the business. "My jeweler peers did not understand what I was up to, and computer artists were put off by the whole notion of jewelry," he said...