By Staff
A team of Austrian researchers using brain technology discovers caffeine makes people more alert by perking up part of the brain involved in short-term memory - the kind that helps focus attention on tasks at hand, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Americans' average daily consumption of 236 million milligrams ranks us as the planet's pre-eminent caffiends.
That's equal to 4.5 cups of coffee - three times the world average.
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Israel: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon bolted the right-wing Likud Party he helped found in 1973 and formed a new centrist bloc called Kadima, Hebrew for “forward,” apparently to rejuvenate the peace process with Palestinians. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerges as the top candidate to take on Sharon and the leftist Labor Party in March elections. Former prime minister Shimon Peres, bitter over his ouster as Labor Party leader, defects to Sharon's new party Nov. 30.