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...helped move the case forward, is under no illusions that the jig is up for the dopers. If one lab can invent a nearly undetectable steroid, others are certainly doing the same. "People are developing designer drugs of all sorts," he says. "That's the bitter part. The sweetness is that [this time] it was discovered." For the four men soon to go on trial, things are about to get anything but sweet. --Reported by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Mitch Frank/New York, Laura A. Locke and Daniel Terdiman/San Francisco and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
After a late night, New York City college student Dave Hearns and his friends don't count on coffee for a quick perk-up the next morning. Instead they slurp cans of energy drinks like New York Minute, a caffeine-infused beverage that smacks of sweet cherries. "I don't like the taste of coffee," says Hearns. "This wakes me up more." He says this even though New York Minute, like most energy drinks, contains up to a third less caffeine than a cup of coffee...
There's a sameness to the drinks, in both their sweet taste and their ingredients (caffeine, fructose and taurine, a nonessential amino acid, are among the most common). They also share a penchant for aggressive, alpha-male names like Rockstar (which tastes like fizzy bubble gum), Venom (with a citrus bite), Blue Ox, Monster, Hype, "bone-crushing citrus" Piranha, Stinger and Whoop...
...convinced that sweets and snacks always taste better when you're on a diet, you may be right. Scientists at the University of Malawi found that when you're hungry, your ability to taste changes, either because the taste buds on your tongue become more sensitive to sweets and salt or because your brain perceives the same tastes more intensely. The researchers gave a group of college men different concentrations of sugar or salt solutions to drink before and after lunch; the students were more aware of the sweet and salty tastes before lunch...
...take Christ's name in vain, but the sweetest kid in South Park, Butters, is also the most devout. When he says Jesus, it's not a swear word but a desperate prayer: "Uhoh, great Jesus, son of Mary, wife of Joseph, what are we gonna do, huh? Huhoh, sweet Joseph, husband of Mary but not father of sweet Jesus!" Butters' mom was right when (after she tried to kill him), she said, "You're the best son in the whole world...