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...huge amounts of suspect chemicals to laboratory animals such as mice. Typically they are given what is known as the maximum tolerated dose, an amount just below the lethal level. In the case of the artificial sweetener saccharin, mice were given the equivalent of hundreds of cans of diet soda a day; similarly, a person would have had to eat thousands of apples a day to get the maximum tolerated dose of Alar, a fruit-ripening chemical used by growers until it was withdrawn from the market because of a cancer scare. If as few as five mice...
...that has reigned in various Times Square locations for 75 years, the billboard contains a mile of neon tubing, 60 miles of optical fiber and more than 13,000 incandescent light bulbs. Controlled by a robotic animation system, the giant bottle pops its cap, a straw emerges, and the soda level rises and falls as if King Kong were guzzling it. The optical fiber sparkles to give the appearance of a carbonated brown liquid...
Under Smith, General Cinema recently purchased the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for $1.4 billion. The conglomerate also owns 60 percent of the Nieman Marcus Group and has played a leading role in the nation's soda bottling industry...
Bradshaw is a family tell-all in the public arena -- you're only as sick as your secrets is the rule -- but is reticent in private. Sipping a diet soda in a hotel room a few hours after the arduous Manhattan workshop, he acknowledges that his omnipresent smile sometimes hides more desperate feelings. His father's death at 62 haunts him ("That's just four years from now in my own life"), and he has lingering regrets about himself as a young father. He was married in 1969; he and ex-wife Nancy had a son and he helped raise...
Benningan's, Houlihan's and T.G.I. Friday's are the standard models, serving big burgers, pasta salads, grilled shrimp and chicken, buffalo wings, mozzarella sticks, pitchers of soda and beer, cheap wine, cheesecake and always, always a "Death by Chocolate...