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...long-term urban addicts. Even the usually hard-line drug czar Barry McCaffrey has written that "we can't incarcerate our way out of the drug problem." He has urged Congress to reduce mandatory minimums for crack, which are currently 100 times as heavy as those for powdered coke and impact most on minority youth...
...things really go better with Coke? The company and several major book publishers are betting they do. As part of a combined strategy to put more pizzazz in Diet Coke's image and more fizz in book sales, the Coca-Cola company launched an unusual cross-marketing campaign with six publishing houses Monday: Buy a 12- or 24-pack of Diet Coke or caffeine-free Diet Coke and get an excerpt from one of six new books inside...
...most popular places people visit are search engines; they archive the hundreds of millions of pages that make up the World Wide Web. Yahoo, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos and Hotbot are examples of search engines. The confusion probably stems from the fact that Netscape's and Microsoft's browsers (the Coke and Pepsi of the browser market) take you to their own home pages--which have search engines--when you start them. You can change that start page by going to the browser menu's "Internet options" on a PC or "Preferences...
...Prada to Yohji Yamamoto, you'd think he had a product placement contract. It seems to be Ellis' convenient shorthand for character sketches. When Victor undergoes a transformation to a law student, we know he is different because he now wears a Brooks Brothers suit and drinks Diet Coke. London and Paris become nothing more than a different collection of recognizable proper nouns (Notting Hill and Irvine Welsh in the first case; Chez Georges and Yves Saint-Laurent in the second...
...than when spoken by a person from a more developed area. In our native country, this phrase would ordinarily mean "I understand your ideas". If a local chief uses this phrase, however, it is more likely to translate as "Your ideas do not interest me. Go get me a Coke...