Surge, to some, packs too much of a surge for teenagers.

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At least one school here has banned the new high-calorie, high-caffeine soda, saying it causes students to talk more and misbehave."We got it six weeks ago, and one of the junior high kids chugged two cans of it, and he was wired," said Margaret Mohrmann, director for the Academy for Gifted Students, a private school in Little Rock. "A bunch of other kids had it, and it was the same thing, they were wired."

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