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...Said Karen Wilson, 28, who last June led a rally to protest the new Coke in San Francisco's Union Square: "At first I was numb. Then I was shocked. Then I started to yell and scream and run up and down." Archrival Pepsi professed to be just as delighted. Crowed Roger Enrico, president of Pepsi-Cola USA, about new Coke: "Clearly this is the Edsel of the '80s. This was a terrible mistake. Coke's got a lemon on its hands, and now they're trying to make lemonade." On Wall Street, though, Coke jumped $2.37 a share...
...That's why the key moment in the Super Bowl telecast wasn't Janet Jackson's boob boo-boo. It was a commercial for Pepsi-Cola called Crossroads. In the spot it was 1953, and a young Jimi Hendrix was trying to choose between Coke and Pepsi-and, simultaneously, between an accordion and a guitar. You know which drink he picked, and you know which instrument he picked up. If you've got modern blood in your veins-and if, like me, you can remember as if it were yesterday the first time you heard the thrilling six notes that...
...Noted "The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death." MAULANA INYADULLAH, Afghan mujahedin fighter, on why the soldiers of the Taliban have no fear of a possible invasion by U.S. forces and their allies...
...good, but no Coke? Soft drink bosses lobbied the Clinton Administration for gum arabic to be exempted. Not surprisingly, they won. Just in case there's a change in that exemption or the supply they depend on dries up, big manufacturers have built up a five-year buffer stock. "Pepsi-Cola is not a joke," says Magid Gadir, general manager of the Khartoum Gum Arabic Processing Co., one of the biggest exporters in the country. "If we stop selling, they have enough to last and they will try seriously for alternatives...
...considered merely tasty and refreshing, is making serious inroads into the health drink market: In the past five years, orange juice distributors, caught in an increasingly tight marketplace, have been ratcheting up health claims and injecting their juices with all sorts of vitamins and minerals. Tropicana, a subdivision of Pepsi-Cola, first shook up the market back in 1997 by adding calcium to its formulations, and pushing its product as a healthy alternative for the lactose intolerant and other milk-phobics...