Your Letters
16:37 UK time, Friday, 4 June 2010
A "helps improve mental and retentive faculties by multiplying brain cells. It also protects skin from wrinkles and black spots and prevents such geriatric diseases as cerebral haemorrhage, myocardium and brain infarction by removing acid effete matters in time. It, much higher than quality cosmetics in anti-oxidation capacity, is efficacious for different skin diseases, including allergic dermatitis. It also makes skin fair." But "the drink has no side effect".
To me that sounds like a lot of side effects for a drink, which has the main effect of hydration.
Chris Clarke, Grenoble, France
Only the UK is obsessed with . Drink sensibly and enjoy life - without government busy bodies.
Linda Docherty
Remember, it's an , not a target.
Stephen, London
Paper Monitor is right, Drunk Girl is never far away at all. I wonder if an appearance on the counts as going up in the world, or down? Not that she would care...
Tim Barrow, London, UK
Laura from Weybridge (Thursday letters): the journalist who wrote "thought to be" is clearly just being careful to be accurate. The desalination plant is clearly the first in modern times, but maybe Stone Age societies had surprisingly advanced technology for water desalination and also built plants, which of course we don't know about because they hadn't invented writing. The alternatives - perhaps the journalist didn't check whether there was another one - is unthinkable.
Adam, London, UK
Sam, yes (Thursday letters). Yes, looking for the 'Like' button indicates too much time on Facebook. However, I can't talk - I was once reading a book by the computer, got to the end of the page, clicked the "page down" button on the keyboard, and was momentarily surprised when the text in front of me stayed the same.
Louise, Oxford
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