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...with the idea in 1996, after wondering why flavored milk cost so much more than the plain variety. He tried using a fat plastic straw from McDonald's and a filter made from one of his daughter's school stockings. That didn't work. He soon designed a new type of conical filter that wouldn't clog, and figured out how to create flavor beads by making a tiny core and gradually adding material to it in a tumbler. Sucralose sweetener kept sugar levels - high in most flavored milks - at half a teaspoon, or 2 g, per straw. His first...
...disallows any allegorizing. It’s also incredibly heartfelt and deeply moving. The popularity of Stephenie Meyer’s book series, “Twilight,” which also revolves around the relationship between a human and a vampire, has proven that the market for this type of story is strong. Those who are interested in seeing the film adaptation of Meyer’s book this month also owe it to themselves to see this extraordinary Swedish import—it’s difficult to imagine how this story could be told any better...
...campaigns. The last three presidents of the UC have projected a laid-back, hippie vibe. They’ve loped around campus in faded jeans, sporting stubble and shocks of long hair. Purely on image, it would be harder to get farther away from the student council Type-A suit. Chris was upbeat about his defeat, ever, he said, the “cock-eyed optimist.” “I’m not really surprised that I lost, I lost the first three elections of my high school, too. I understand that certain things work...
...waste accelerated in the Cold War's wake and simply exploded following 9/11. It highlights the challenge facing President-elect Barack Obama as he contemplates retooling an Industrial Age military - primed for state-on-state warfare - into the more agile force better suited for 21st century conflicts of the type now being waged in Afghanistan and Iraq. (See the top 10 news stories...
...However, all signs point to the fact that the process of closing Guantánamo once and for all will be exactly that - a process. Housing the remaining detainees on the U.S. mainland to await trial is fraught with issues of its own, including a debate over what type of court would be best equipped to handle such cases, the technical aspects of repatriating and releasing any prisoners cleared of guilt and the question of how or whether to try suspects against whom evidence has been gathered through torture or classified means...