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...nutritional approaches to increase a patient's blood count before surgery. Efforts are made to guard against unnecessary blood loss from tests, and standard blood drawings are either reduced or eliminated altogether. And since an intensive-care patient during an average stay must part with close to a liter of blood for testing--much of it unused and thrown out--microanalyzers have been developed to scrutinize tinier quantities of blood...
...could he do his best if he was drinking? A second set of analyses of his blood had confirmed the original tests taken on Aug. 31: Paul had between 1.75 and 1.87 grams of alcohol per liter of blood, nearly four times the legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.5. To that, last week, were added explosive toxicology results: Paul's blood also contained "therapeutic" amounts of fluoxetine (the generic name for the antidepressant Prozac) and trace amounts of tiapride, a drug used to treat various conditions and is sometimes prescribed to quiet symptoms of agitation and aggressiveness in patients being...
Investigators said that Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel's number two security man, had a blood alcohol level of 1.7 grams per liter of blood ? more than three times the legal limit. Paul was not Fayed's regular driver, who was instead used as a decoy for the paparazzi that were hounding the couple...
...food has one thing going for it: the price. Thanks to constant devaluation of the Hungarian Forint, the dollar goes a long way here along the Danube. A slice of pizza costs 50 cents; a 0.2-liter bottle of Coke is about 25 cents; hefty hero sandwiches are $1; ice cream--available in dozens of flavors in little carts on every street--is about 20 cents a scoop...
...idea was to blast the Atlantans from the shelves and fountains using a combination of new products such as sugar-free Pepsi Max, new bottling alliances, and new advertising combined with an old arrogance that Pepsi's marketers have always had in two-liter sizes. None more so than Christopher Sinclair, who led Pepsi's international soft-drinks business. He told Fortune in 1994, "If Coke starts growing 8%, we'll do 10% or 12%." He predicted non-U.S. sales of $5 billion...