Word: atlanta
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...know why. Over the past five years the Atlanta goliath has used Pepsi as a punching bag, kicking its can from Turkestan to Tallahassee and creating vast amounts of wealth for shareholders in the process. Who wouldn't want a foe like that? By the time Roger Enrico walked into the chief executive's suite at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, N.Y., three years ago, the company's performance had detached itself from its image as a vaunted marketing maverick that launched the cola wars in the '80s. The numbers tell all: in the U.S., Pepsi sells a single soda...
Even if some animals do engage in homosexual activity purely for pleasure, their behavior still serves as an incomplete model--and an incomplete explanation--for human behavior. "In our society homosexuality means a principal or exclusive orientation," says psychology professor Frans de Waal of the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta. "Among animals it's just nonreproductive sexual behavior...
...findings are particularly alarming because they arrived the same week as the results of a survey showing that American children seem to be taking up cigarettes at ever younger ages. The National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education, based in Atlanta, reported that 4% of fourth-graders, 7% of fifth-graders and nearly 15% of sixth-graders had already smoked. Add to this the more than 3 million teenagers with the habit, and you have a major health problem...
...TRASH THE TRASH CANS Billboards and bus stops are fair game for advertisements, so why not trash bins? Starting this fall, receptacles in some 450 cities, including Atlanta, Denver and San Francisco, will sport lighted ads on all four sides. AdBrite, which designed the bins, used what president Caesar Passannante calls "space-age technology," including shatterproof panels and energy-saving, fuel-cell-powered fluorescent lamps to make the spiffy, gold-trimmed black bins glow in the dark. But inside it's still just trash...
...Hopefully, we will be able to cover the entireEast Coast from Atlanta up through Toronto,"Dickson said...