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...Duped, Drop by Drop I cannot believe that TIME would use an entire page to review bottled water [June 25-July 2]. Most people can't even distinguish between tap water and bottled water. I heard of a test in which different water bottles were filled with tap water from the same tap. Surprisingly, most participants thought they were drinking genuine bottled water and claimed that the (same) water from different bottles tasted different. That is nothing more than the power of suggestion. Unfortunately, our minds are being deceived not only by water bottlers but also by alternative medicine, psychics...
...Duped, Drop by Drop I cannot believe that time would use an entire page to review bottled water [June 18]. Most people can't even distinguish between tap water and bottled water. I heard of a test in which different water bottles were filled with tap water from the same tap. Surprisingly, most participants thought they were drinking genuine bottled water and claimed that the (same) water from different bottles tasted different. That is nothing more than the power of suggestion. Unfortunately, our minds are being deceived not only by water bottlers but also by alternative medicine, psychics and even...
...Bottled-water connoisseur Michael Mascha thinks a restaurant markup for a bottle of mineral water of five to eight times its cost is horrible business. My local self-service Chinese buffet, hardly at the upper end of the culinary spectrum, charges 30p for a glass of tap water. Anyone care to estimate the percentage markup? Graham Bird, LONDON...
...NASDAQ back then. The companies offering their shares to the public in China are not small, technology oriented start ups. They are, for the most part, big state owned companies - oil and gas, mining, banks - most of which have already gone public in Hong Kong, seeking to tap the broader international capital markets. China's two main equity markets - for so called "A-shares" - remain sequestered from the outside world, available only to Chinese investors paying in Renminbi...
...surveys, think the country is on the wrong track. About two-thirds of the public disapprove of the job performance of President Bush, and an even higher number disdain Congress. The media are excited about the prospect of a wealthy businessman running for President as an independent who could tap into broad public disgruntlement with the partisan politicians in Washington...