杏吧原创

Buzz, the title of Stephen Braun鈥檚 book on alcohol and caffeine (Oxford
University Press, New York, $25, ISBN 0 19 509289 9), is what they give
us. And nearly everyone drinks them. Except for water, the world鈥檚 most popular
drinks contain one or the other. Braun follows the fate of both in the body. He
has an easy, humorous style, and quotes authorities from Shakespeare to Zippy
the Pinhead. The reader will be impressed鈥攁nd possibly left a little
queasy鈥攂y the description of how the human chemical engineering plant
deals with poisons. You might need a drink to recover. Braun is not against
that, but balks at the idea that 鈥渁nother little drink won鈥檛 do us any
丑补谤尘鈥�.