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...might be the face of recovery. The Clinton Foundation, the American Heart Association and the nation's three biggest beverage manufacturers--Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury Schweppes--last week announced an agreement to begin rolling back America's growing obesity epidemic in the place they can do the most good: the schools. Beginning now and progressing through the 2009-10 school year, the manufacturers will kick high-calorie, sugary drinks out of school vending machines and replace them with bottled water, unsweetened fruit juices, low-fat milk and sugar-free sodas--all served in smaller portions. And that's only...
...school vending-machine sales, with fatty and sugary snacks making up the rest. And since school administrators are hardly likely to conduct beverage pat-downs, nothing will prevent kids from bringing sodas to school or ducking out to a 7-Eleven for a midday sugar shot. "The soda agreement looks like a step in the right direction," says Marion Nestle, nutrition expert at New York University, "but I can't help being skeptical...
...have a newspaper photo op with Clinton rather than headlines about their fending off lawsuits. Michele Simon, director of the Center for Informed Food Choices, along with a team of other health groups and lawyers, had been in negotiations with the beverage companies for a similar health-conscious agreement as the threat of litigation loomed. When Clinton came calling, those talks broke off. "Apparently Coke and Pepsi were shopping for the best p.r. opportunity," she sniffs. "It looks much better to have President Clinton at your side than a bunch of lawyers." Exactly...
...agreement the negotiators eventually reached was unveiled with plenty of fanfare and not a little hyperbole. "It's a bold step forward in the struggle to help America's kids lead healthier lives," Clinton said. Maybe, but the terms are hardly airtight. Sweetened drinks will still be available at after-school events that parents attend, such as plays and games, and kids remain free to load up on sugar on their way to school. "We'll just get it someplace else," says Zach Pilkington, 15, a student at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in Des Moines, Iowa...
...companies. Meanwhile, though the front-runner in this year's Mexican presidential race, former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is more friendly to foreign investment than the likes of Chavez, he has also pledged to review certain aspects of the 12-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA...