Word: sugar
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Tate & Lyle is on a sugar rush. After just four years in stores, the British firm's no-calorie sweetener sucralose (brand name Splenda) accounts for 43% of U.S. retail sugar-substitute sales (excluding Wal-Mart). That beats Equal and Sweet'n Low, according to market researcher Information Resources. In a deal with Tate, McNeil Nutritionals, a Johnson & Johnson division, is rolling out a sugar-Splenda blend for baking in August. Splenda, already used in thousands of manufactured foods (one appeal: it withstands heat better than alternatives do), is also going into new mid-calorie sodas from Coca-Cola...
...Kerry pronounced himself stunned, seized the can from Edwards and started reading the nutrition label aloud. "Sodium, 2%. Protein, John, zero," he called as Edwards scrambled for the door. As for himself, Kerry owned up: "When I drink Coke, I have to drink the real thing, because of the sugar...
...INDICATORS The Beet Goes On The European Commission announced an overhaul of the E.U.'s sugar regime. Beginning in 2005, Brussels wants production reduced by 16% over four years and the guaranteed price for the region's sugar producers slashed by one-third...
...benefited greatly from the colonial strife next door. Broke after its Haitian defeat--"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon exclaimed--France sold a large region, 828,000 square miles, from the western banks of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, to the U.S. for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. at a cost of about 4¢ an acre. Alexander Hamilton said Napoleon would not have sold his claims except for the "courage and obstinate resistance [of the] black...
...violence--American Casino has caught several Cops-style run-ins between security guards and drunken guests--but both reality shows must also rely on the picayune dramas of the service industry. (Will the lounge singer keep his artistic integrity or be forced to do Billy Joel covers? Will the sugar sculpture collapse? Will the chef's twice-baked fingerling potatoes, as promised, indeed "kick...