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...asks for a couple of Scotches over lunch," she says. Reporter-Researcher Elizabeth Rudulph tested several exotic new nonalcoholic tipples like Boncontent, a concoction of kiwi fruit and mineral water, and orange-flavored Perrier, as well as countless bottles of water. Concludes Rudulph: "Still water is the best thirst quencher, and flavored water is better for you than soft drinks...
Such a quest may not be the stuff of headlines, but it is real enough and is beginning to shape ways of thinking among educated Chinese. American teachers of English in China report a thirst among their students for discussions of moral and philosophical topics. Christianity has made substantial inroads: in Kaifeng (pop. 600,000), the second largest city in Henan province, officials say that 10% of the population is now Christian. In 1949 it was less than...
Georgia Bird, a calico woman, has managed to raise five sons and a daughter, as her famous boy explains, "cooking in restaurants and such," having been something of a kitchen legend herself. Her husband Joe had a tragic thirst and killed himself in 1975 about a year after their divorce. From a dwarf named Shorty, the late proprietor of Shorty's pool hall, the boys first learned that their father had been a terrific basketball player and might have gone places had he not left school around the eighth grade to begin a life of work. Relating this memory, Larry...
...refugee crisis, Washington is donating at least another $60 million in emergency aid. But most of that will have to be used to feed hungry Sudanese. Says Amala Hussein, the mother of six from the drought-stricken region of Northern Kordofan: "In our area there is only hunger and thirst now. In the summer our goats, sheep and camels were all dying from lack of grass...
...benefited more than the French from the new thirst for chic sparklers. Genuine champagne comes only from grapes grown on 70,000 acres of chalky soil near Reims, France. It was there that Dom Pérignon, a 17th century Benedictine monk, perfected the slow, expensive méthode champenoise that creates the carbon-dioxide fizz by fermenting wine a second time inside the bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength...