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Rappahannock New. photo/Lou Hatter AFTER HEARING RUMORS that soft drinks contain huge amounts of sugar, Tom Von Fange’s eighth grade earth science classes decided to find out the facts. By evaporating the * water from a Coke, the class measured the weight of the remaining solid. Then, it was trans- ' lated into an equivalent amount of sugar, which Jerri Mallory (above) scoops from the scale - a teaspoon at a time. The result? On average, a 12 ounce Coke contains nine teaspoons of -t sugar. The class concluded that the rumors were largely true, and the experiment almost •' made them give up drinking sodas. :
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