Save the 20-ounce cup, Trib pleads

Many people have a very personal relationship with their java. The perfume of brewing coffee in the morning beckons the bedraggled. That first hot sip. The rush. What's better than that? Some critics may suggest that Americans drink altogether too much coffee and that a smaller cup would be better for the nerves, that we should view coffee, as one company exec said, not as "just a caffeine delivery device." These are people who've never been on deadline, who've never slurped the last chewy dregs of a venti in a desperate stab for inspiration.

[From Save the 20-ounce cup! -- chicagotribune.com]