The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which bills itself as keeper of the global strategic maple syrup reserve, said in August that up to 10 million pounds of the sweet stuff was in the warehouse from which the theft occurred but could not say exactly how much was missing.

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Take the case of saccharin, the stuff in Sweet'N Low.

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Seriously though -- this stuff is pretty sweet.

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Is the stuff that makes soda sweet as bad for you as the nicotine in a cigarette?

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"Cancer drugs represent the sweet spot for biotech companies, but stuff like this is a nonevent, " says John McCamant , editor of the Berkeley, Calif.

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Astraea Press only does sweet romance and because of the content I would have had to edit a lot of the stuff out.

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It would be another bit of sweet vindication for Xerox PARC, which was maligned for years as the lab that invented great stuff--the computer mouse, the point-and-click interface, Ethernet networking--but did little to let Xerox shareholders cash in on it.

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