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Increasingly, school officials across the country are coming around to this point of view. Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City and numerous smaller districts have taken steps to ban the sale of soft drinks during the school day (although New York has made the dubious decision to replace soda with sugary Snapple beverages). California and Texas have issued statewide bans on soft-drink sales in elementary and middle schools...
...constructed. What they have found is a connection between sprawling suburbs and spreading waistlines. Very simply, people who live in communities where it's hard to get anywhere on foot are heavier than those who live in less car-dependent settings, whether densely settled cities like Boston and Chicago or just pedestrian-friendly towns. While diet remains an important factor in the obesity epidemic, it's becoming increasingly clear that Americans are shaped partly by how America is shaped...
...finally convinced the exile was permanent, the elder Ernesto paid $5,000 for a cigarmaking factory in Miami. To find a niche among the 30 or so other cigar factories, Ernesto Sr. began testing some signature brands. He developed a mail-order business to reach markets in Chicago and the Northeast, leafing through the Yellow Pages to find doctors, lawyers and other potential cigar smokers...
...controlled U.S. reconnaissance plans during the Cuban missile crisis and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, puts in up to 60 hours a week commanding a work force of 90 employees and 8,000 volunteers. His mission: providing meals to 310,000 needy people in and around Chicago each year. Mulqueen, 66, is executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, considered by some to be America's best-run food bank. One symbol of the program's success: thanks to a vigorous fund-raising effort, a gleaming, new $30 million headquarters the size of almost four football fields...
Mulqueen has built the food bank, founded in 1978 by half a dozen private citizens, into a formidable fighting machine in the war on poverty. Chicago's needs are still rising: demand for food is growing about 15% a year. The amount of food distributed since 2000 has risen 30%, to 42.3 million lbs. a year, and fund raising has jumped 33%, to $9 million--at a time when economic turbulence has squeezed philanthropic giving. Mulqueen's weapons: strategies adapted from the for-profit world, combined with good old military discipline. Mulqueen endorsed such concepts as training, branding and competitive...