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...free milk products: it has the same caloric and nutritive values as whole milk and is cheap to produce. Because the enzyme they used is already available commercially, the researchers believe that their process could be performed simultaneously with pasteurization-at a cost of less than a penny a quart...
...High School. "They love having this hangout." Bill Walton would agree. At last year's Thanksgiving dinner, a basketball team tradition at the Gilberts' that ranks next to Sunday bagels-and-lox brunch, Walton (on a dare) gleefully wolfed down an entire pumpkin pie smothered with a quart of ice cream. When Bill came down with a severe strep throat last season, he went to the Gilberts' to recuperate. Says Walton of Sam: "He's just a great dude...
...method is based on a well-established physiological fact: muscles under stress need more oxygen than those that are not. Athletes' muscles become fatigued when they are starved for oxygen. To overcome this hunger, Ekblom first removed a total of 1,200 cc. (slightly more than a quart) of blood from each of four students in three separate bleedings four days apart, then kept the blood in cold storage. The bleedings temporarily reduced the subjects' red-cell count, decreasing their oxygen-carrying capacity and thus their endurance by about 30%. But their bodies soon replaced the lost blood...
Steve sells his clams at the cheapest price in Ipswich. The average rate for steamers is 85 cents per quart; Steve asks 65 cents, and if he isn't there, just take the clams and leave the money on the chair. Some people leave a little more than 65 cents. No one leaves less...
...when the last quart changes hands, Steve closes (but does not lock) the door to the clam shack and trudges...