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...Bottled Value I read with some amusement your article "Awash in Sales," about stainless-steel water bottles [Sept. 29]. In 1986, when I was teaching in China, I bought two one-liter steel canteens from the People's Liberation Army surplus store. They cost me the equivalent of $2 each. I still use them: one stays in the fridge while I take the other to work. I just rinse them daily and refill them with tap water. As with many other things, it seems the Chinese got there first. Larry Tedesco, Brisbane, Queensland...
...women who had not been pregnant, there is no way to avoid the risk altogether, Nygaard says. But there are few simple things women can do to lower risk, including changing two common habits. For one thing, Nygaard says, she sees too many of her patients lugging around one-liter bottles of water. This trend makes it more likely that women will drink too much water, leading to what doctors call urge incontinence, a condition that may exacerbate incontinence due to other causes. "If you are on the verge of having leakage and you are drinking three or four times...
...meantime, there's dinner - massive steaks, potatoes and salad - and beer, which comes in 5 liter Heineken mini-kegs. Jimi Hendrix and Dr. Dre are playing on the stereo in the main dome. NEEM has no shortage of grad students like Trevor Popp, who describes himself as "34 going on 12," and they know how to have fun. Don't get me wrong. Ice-core science is all hard work - especially the painstaking analysis of the ice cores back in the lab - but only a certain kind of scientist chooses to spend weeks on an isolated...
...before the opening whistle blew. For the better part of a week, German black, red and gold flags sprouted from car windows, clothes lines, window sills right across Germany. In Berlin, the schnell-bahn rapid transit line was taken over by chanting fans, draped in national colors, swigging half-liter bottles of beer and singing for their team's victory. A half a million Berliners converged on the Brandenburg Gate in the historic center of the old capital to watch the game on giant screens. As in 2006, when Berlin hosted soccer's World Cup, a country not given...
...Coca-Cola sells 1.5 billion beverages a day in over 200 countries, and it takes about 2.5 liters of water to produce just one liter of its products at Coke's bottling plants. In 2006 Coca-Cola and its bottlers used 80 billion gallons (290 billion liters) of water to produce its beverages - equivalent to one-fifth of the daily water usage of the U.S. Some 40% of that went into drinks like Coke, Sprite and Fanta. The other 60% was consumed by the firm's supply chain and in the production of ingredients, including the water-intensive process...