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...have to look far to find folks who are freaked out by genetically modified foods, who won't drink cow's milk laced with growth hormones or touch diet colas sweetened with aspartame. Since we have so many hang-ups about the purity of what we eat and drink, you'd think that any company foolish enough to add substances whose quantity and quality are notoriously difficult to control to their snacks or beverages would quickly founder. Instead the exact opposite is true. In the U.S. last year, according to the market-research firm Frost and Sullivan, consumers bought...
Burden, 58, puts bloated thoroughfares on what he calls a "road diet." In cities as large as Las Vegas, Toronto and Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...
...partly the desire to fill in the gaps in her diet and partly the eye-catching package that led Amy Hoerler, 29, of Brooklyn, to toss a box of Harmony cereal into her cart last month. Hoerler, who takes a women's multivitamin and a calcium chew, still feels she doesn't eat as healthfully as she should. "But there's a feeling," she says, "that if you eat a cereal like this in the morning, it balances out the Taco Bell you eat for dinner...
...with a tag line for all the new ads: "For Mature Audiences," although, as he pointed out, "that doesn't mean old. You can be 25 and be mature." Which is just as well, because the Dunhill' website would be baffling to anyone not accustomed to a steady diet of rock videos. And the company dipped into the archives, reproducing, among other things, a Dunhillian cricket ball...
February 1976: Scott Meadow ’77, an “esthetic bodybuilder,” wins Mr. New England, aided by a diet of egg whites and water...