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Spending an estimated $27.9 billion a year for soft drinks, Americans seem to have almost unquenchable thirst. A handy new aid that caters to this craving is called Soda Stream. Fitted with a carbon dioxide cartridge, the shiny plastic appliance fizzes tap water into salt-free club soda. Adding flavor concentrates will make instant plain or diet cola, tonic, root beer or the popular fruit sodas. Compared with supermarket soda prices, which can soar as high as 50˘ for a 12-oz. brand-name can, Soda Stream at 15˘ per bottle is a bargain. The initial investment of $39.95 buys...
Introduced in Britain about twelve years ago, Soda Stream has worked is way into 12% of homes there and into staggering 40% of those in Israel and Iceland. With that history, it may soon outgrow its five U.S. test markets--Boise, Charleston, Syracuse, Fort Wayne and Memphis--and take on the rest of the country as well. CINEMA GOURMET...
Many movies have made violence into art, from the slow-motion bullet ballets of John Woo’s work to the historically poignant impact of Saving Private Ryan. In Sin City, Rodriguez and Miller use a constant stream of savagery to support the movie’s black humor and artful cinematography. Watching the characters “kill their way to the truth” in this film is like pushing Dwight’s car the last half mile of its trip. Cinematic violence can be a high-octane but painfully inefficient fuel, and viewers not thrilled...
Many movies have made violence into art, from the slow-motion bullet ballets of John Woo’s work to the historically poignant impact of Saving Private Ryan. In Sin City, Rodriguez and Miller use a constant stream of savagery to support the movie’s black humor and artful cinematography. Watching the characters “kill their way to the truth” in this film is like pushing Dwight’s car the last half mile of its trip. Cinematic violence can be a high-octane but painfully inefficient fuel, and viewers not thrilled...
...attention turns to the College of Cardinals, whose 117 voting members began to stream into Rome from 52 countries to pay their respects and write the next chapter of the church's history. Later this month they will meet in the Sistine Chapel, already swept for hidden microphones, to choose the next Pontiff. There will be plenty of intrigue in the days to come: "The battles to take care of everyone's own interests have been abounding," a Roman Curia Cardinal told TIME. But in the final days many were struck by the sudden transparency of the Vatican's thick...