21.   Coke attributed the drop in earnings to withdrawal of its products from markets in Belgium and France after hundreds of people complained of illness from drinking its beverages.

22.   Few of the study subjects drank one beverage exclusively, so they were categorized by their strong preferences.

23.   In a previous study, Wyshak found increased bone fractures among adult women who drank carbonated beverages.

24.   Mapei team manager Alvaro Crespi said a team masseur, Paolo Noe, felt sick after drinking a beverage on Monday.

25.   The risk of broken bones was three times greater for girls who drank carbonated beverages in general and five times greater for active girls who drank colas.

26.   The report did not specify how many of the deaths were due to consuming fatal amounts and how many to drinking beverages that may have been tainted.

27.   Not drinking alcoholic beverages is one of five principles for Buddhists, along with proscribing murder, theft, adultery and lying.

28.   The five were also convicted of drinking alcoholic beverages, banned under Islamic law, Kayhan daily said.