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...Germany, where a television station broadcast footage of an elderly woman plunging more than 30 feet into the roiling floodwater when rescuers attempted to airlift her out of danger; she later died in the hospital. Dozens of patients in Dresden's hospitals, including a day-old, 1-lb. 8-oz. baby, had to be evacuated by car and helicopter. With the Elbe River rising to its highest level in history, rescuers worked frantically to move thousands of paintings, including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, from the flooded basement of the baroque Zwinger Palace...
...vitamin-absorption and cause stomach cramping," warns Shan James, physiologist at Duke Health and Fitness Center. She also notes that the ingredients listed on the label can be tricky to decipher. How many calories are you really getting from some popular fortified waters? (By way of comparison, a 12-oz. can of Coke...
Coca-Cola has moved another step closer to making everyone forget the debacle of New Coke. The company's latest brand extension, Vanilla Coke, appears to be an early hit. Vanilla Coke was the top-selling 20-oz. soft drink in supermarkets and drugstore chains in the four weeks after its May launch, according to Beverage Digest. It's too soon to declare it a winner, but analysts say Coca-Cola may have found a drink that bridges generations: Vanilla Coke reminds the baby-boom-and-older crowd of the days when soda jerks would spritz your glass with...
...Anne was a year younger than I was and yet I felt she always was smarter than I was,” Brittell says. “She was reading War and Peace when I was reading the Wizard of Oz...
...investor trust and employee loyalty, Ogami deliberately set about developing his own cult of personality. In daily business meetings, his employees were forced to chant his pithy sayings from what he called "the messiah's creed"; those who balked risked getting the sack. Like a video-age Wizard of Oz, Ogami projected to the public a larger-than-life?and largely fictional?image of himself in reams of expensively produced promotional material. He marketed himself as one-part Jet Li and one-part Mohandas Gandhi, a martial arts expert with a cartoon catchphrase: "I will save the world...