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Straw started doing coke in 1983. He wasn't caught until '95. Cocaine was pretty cool in the '80's, but by the '90's its time, and Darryl's, had passed...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Darryl, A Hero Made of Straw | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...girl I met at the Ice Cream Bash confirmed this hypothesis: "Harvard only uses Coke products," she complained. Yale, on the other hand, had Pepsi products. It was not political passion but simply an inflexible taste-preference that made her shun Coke. Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Trivial Truth | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Solve this problem: The staff and students of School District 11 in Colorado Springs, Colo., drank 30,000 cases of Coke beverages last year. District 11 has a 10-year, $8 million contract with the soft-drink company that calls for the yearly consumption of 1.68 million bottles of Coke products. If a case contains 24 bottles, which answer is correct? A) District 11 met its goal, and its students will sing back-up to Aretha Franklin in a new ad campaign. B) District 11 is 960,000 bottles in the red. C) Students should drink lots more Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classrooms for Sale | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...best answer is B, but a District 11 administrator chose C. "If 35,439 staff and students buy one Coke product every other day for a school year," wrote John Bushey in a September missive to area principals, "we will double the required quota." His advice: allow Coke products in class and place vending machines in easily accessible areas. "Location, location, location is the key," he wrote, signing his memo "the Coke Dude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classrooms for Sale | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...business." In Plymouth, Mich., they take that slogan to heart. District administrators are considering auctioning off school names to the highest-bidding corporation. No takers yet, but it could be the ultimate product placement: imagine your kid one day graduating from McDonald's Middle School and heading off to Coke High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classrooms for Sale | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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