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ourt says breweries can put
Icohol content on beer cans
reviously only ten
tales were required to
lude alcohol con-
t on their labels.
ASHINGTON (AP) — How
:h alcohol is in that bottle of
? Breweries won the right to
alcohol content on their beer
els Wednesday when the
reme Court said it was a mat-
of free speech — and none of
government’s business.
1 he unanimous decision was
ctory for the Coors Brewing
which challenged the law in
7. Coors said there was no
ence to support the govern-
t’s fears that the disclosure
Icohol content would set off
r strength wars,
he court rejected a Clinton
[idministration attempt to rein-
fate a 1935 law that banned al-
pl-content labels except where
tate law required such a listing.
jlJustice Clarence Thomas,
|ting for the court, said the
ernment’s interest in “corn-
ting strength wars” is valid,
he called the post-Prohibi-
tion law an irrational effort to
thwart such wars and promote
sobriety among beer drinkers.
The unanimous ruling means
brewers now are free to put such
information on labels in the 40
states where there has been no
requirement to do so.
The 10 states that require al
cohol-content labels are
"We are pleased with the elimi
nation of this hurdle to provid
ing truthful, factual information
to consumers."
Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Kansas, Massachusetts, Min
nesota, Missouri, Montana, Ok
lahoma and Oregon.
Coors succeeded in its chal
lenge of the federal law that
banned the alcohol-content in
formation from labels but not
from advertisements.
“There is little chance that ...
(the law) can directly and mate
rially advance its aim, while oth
er provisions of the same act di
rectly undermine and counteract
its effect,” Thomas said.
In a concurring opinion. Jus
tice John Paul Stevens criti
cized the law as “nothing more
than an attempt to blindfold
the public.”
Coors’ lawyers said most of to
day’s beer drinkers
prefer lower-alcohol
beers because they
taste better and have
fewer calories.
It is common
knowledge that malt
liquor has more al
cohol than regular
Coovs Brewing Co. beer, and malt
liquor sales make
up less than 3 per-
the overall market.
cent of
Coors’ lawyers noted.
But Coors wants to put such
information of its labels to com
bat what a company spokesman
said was "industry gossip” that
its beer is watered down.
“We are pleased with the
elimination of this hurdle to pro
viding truthful, factual informa
tion to consumers,” Coors said.
bientists claim superconducting breakthrough
j The new mater-
can carry 100
*nes more cur-
nt than existing
nductors.
OS ANGELES (AP)
Scientists have de
veloped a superconduct
ing material that could
lead to better electric
motors, medical diag
nostic devices and bul
let trains that hover
hem again a jj ove tracks in the grip
of magnetic fields,
s at this 19 r fhe material, a flexi-
enson saitUjj e tape less than an
i and politl
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iate the?-
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inch wide and resem
bling foil in a chewing
gum wrapper, was de
scribed at the Materials
Research Society meet
ing in San Francisco on
Wednesday.
Government re
searchers at the Los
Alamos National Labo
ratory in New Mexico
developed the metal
and-ceramic tape, which
can be fashioned into
electrical cables carrying
100 times more current
than existing supercon
ducting materials.
“We’re ahead of any
body else we know of”
in the race to make
more powerful super
conductors that carry
electric current without
any energy-sapping re
sistance, said Dean Pe
terson, head of the lab’s
Superconductivity
Technology Center.
Unlike other super
conducting materials,
the material developed
at Los Alamos contin
ues to carry a large
amount of current
through the coils.
Conventional power
lines can lose up to 15
percent of their energy
from resistance.
Peterson said the
tape carries a record
amount of power —
“over 1 million amperes
for every little square
centimeter of supercon
ductor.” That compares
with less than 800
amps per square cen
timeter of conventional
No. 12 copper wire.
With the new mater
ial, Peterson said, cities
could be spared the ex
pense of building new
power stations or run
ning new lines.
“We’re offering them
the chance to transmit
the power more effi
ciently,” he said
Wednesday after out
lining the findings.
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