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Helsan Surapati sits on the glass-strewn pavement outside the gutted Raja restaurant, playing a blurry video clip of smoke and bloodied faces on his mobile phone. The Balinese vendor was buying a soda just down the street when a bomb hit the three-story building in Bali's popular tourist strip of Kuta. In a quivering voice, Helsan describes how he helped carry the wounded to taxis so they could be rushed to hospital. "There were people everywhere with bloodied faces," he says. "They were afraid of another bomb and were screaming and running." He shakes his head, repeating...
...SODA-CLUB...
Make your own soft drinks with this $100 countertop soda fountain that can brew a liter of soda in about 30 seconds. Comes with a choice of 25 flavors and a replaceable CO2 canister that can carbonate 110 L of water...
...decades he has been the anti-Bernard--a craftsman so light, lithe and likable he almost disappears into his best films. He was Debra Winger's unworthy husband, coasting on amiability, in Terms of Endearment; the -er half of Dumb & Dumber, with Jim Carrey; the Pleasantville soda-shop owner who is turned from a black-and-white cipher into an artist painting in glorious Technicolor...
...chronicling of Lydia's struggles is rather straightforward, but it is only one element of the novel. At the end of each chapter, Goldberg drops in imagined conversations between soldiers on leave or on their way to war, passages from a QD Soda newsletter and letters Driscoll wrote in his old age that illuminate the unethical rise of his beverage empire. Additionally, she excerpts actual news stories of the day. Lastly, in the margins of each page are voices from the dead commenting on or clarifying plot points. For example, when, early in the book, Henry fails to appear...