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Competitors disagree. Still, while percentages of ingredients vary from brand to brand, all the drinks contain water (for fluid replacement), salt and potassium (to maintain the body's fluid-electrolyte balance), and sugar (for quick energy and flavor). Do they actually work? Manhattan internist Peter Bruno, the team doctor for basketball's New York Knicks, gives a qualified yes. "If you work out more than an hour, you must replace both water and sodium," says Bruno. "But when you exercise for less than an hour, you only need to replace the water." Most medical experts agree that for those...
...year, recruited the Carlyle Group, an investment concern specializing in defense firms, to join in the offering for LTV. Their combined bid of $450 million bested by $65 million an offer by a consortium of two U.S. weapons- makers, Martin-Marietta and Lockheed Corp. After a protracted review process, Manhattan bankruptcy judge Burton Lifland awarded LTV's missile division to Thomson-CSF and its aircraft operations to Carlyle...
...perhaps just in time to join the adults before the big door clicks shut in his face, McInerney, 37, appears with an entirely grownup novel about the end of the '80s. It's a funny, self-mocking, sometimes brilliant portrait of Manhattan's young literary and Wall Street crowd, our latest Lost Generation. If it's not quite Tender Is the Night, neither, cold-eyed readers will recall, was Tender Is the Night...
McInerney's version of Vanity Fair brings to mind The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Tom Wolfe's memorably caustic social novel of Manhattan's decay. The two books, however, don't really resemble each other beyond their shared setting. Wolfe despises his characters and creates them in order to hold them up to ridicule, wriggling and in pain. McInerney cares deeply about the silly, grasping, ego-swollen pipsqueaks -- fairly decent, fairly normal people -- he invents. Wolfe's cold contempt gives the reader distance, a panoramic view of an ant colony. McInerney shows us human beings who feel wretched...
...professor, 30, confessed last week to helping two inmates escape from a medium-security prison in upstate New York. State police say Petrik provided the two, who were serving time for murder and robbery, with a tool to cut the prison's chain link fence, then drove them to Manhattan. Colleagues were predictably "shocked" that the professor had helped in the escape. At week's end Petrik was behind bars, facing a seven-year prison term with no sabbaticals, and one of the jailbirds had been caught. Give the prof...