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...residents chow down on McDonald’s instead...
...forms of gambling - in some parts of Asia, and many markets ban televised tournaments and any mention of gambling in traditional advertising. In 2007, mainland Chinese censors banned a television commercial for the Altira Macau hotel and casino (formerly known as the Crown Macau) that featured Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat flipping hotel key cards and ice cubes in an allusion to gambling...
...these guys know that during its 116-year history, liters of backwash have sloshed around the Cup as countless players and fans chugged champagne out of this glorified keg? Don't they know that at least one dog - and a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred - have slurped chow from the Cup? And that both infants and inebriated adults have literally treated the Stanley Cup as a toilet bowl? A man named Walt Neubrand, who is one of the three people in charge of chaperoning the Cup through its many misadventures, put it best. "I laugh at the people who kiss...
Simply put, people eat what is convenient and affordable - and if it's fat-heavy fast food, that's what they'll chow down on. The prevalence of obesity among American youth overall increased to 16.3% in 2006, from 5% in 1980, but some 28% of non-Hispanic black females between ages 12 and 19 are obese, as are about 20% of Mexican-American females (the statistic for non-Hispanic white females in the same age group is 14.5%). In congressional testimony earlier this year, a top official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified food deserts...
...next year's growth rate to 3.5%. JP Morgan also said that the direct flights, tourists, and recent financial agreements are a key to Taiwan's long-term structural growth. "This will also open up a wave or mergers and acquisitions between companies in Taiwan and China," said Chow. "The next industry to watch will be financial industry." (Read about Chinese tourists in Taiwan...