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...statute books that govern shopping, including criminal penalties for promotional sales below cost. There are also gaping contradictions: while Sunday trading as a rule is outlawed, cinemas, restaurants, cafés and fast-food chains are allowed to open. In today's Paris, it's one thing to eat a burger and quite another to indulge in a diet of luxury...
...POPEYE Bill Clinton teamed up last year with SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer to promote children's fitness and nutrition--and to get kids to eat their veggies...
...People are willing to be tolerant, but past a certain point it feels like being ordered to eat the peas. So at West Side High School in Gary, Ind., school officials let a transgendered teen named Kevin Logan come to school in drag every day. He's a popular boy who performs with the girls on drill team. But last weekend, when Kevin showed up at the prom in a slinky fuschia dress, he was barred from entry by the principal. They already had a rule that boys can't wear dresses to the prom. Kevin's classmates were angry...
...Yoplait, less is more. "The buying rate and household penetration are low, about 46%, [but] the mix of people eating yogurt will be widespread," says Robert Waldron, Yoplait division president. Yoplait's foray into the kid category with Go-Gurt in 1998 may have seeded generations of growth. Moms in the suburbs outside Minneapolis were among the first to toss the 2.25-oz. tubes full of such flavors as Strawberry Splash to children who, sans spoons, squeezed it on the go. Five years later, kids ages 8 to 12 were choosing yogurt as a snack 8 1/2 times as often...
...teach kids and vendors that the availability of soda is not a right. Some people lament the loss of revenue from the drink machines, but since when did revenue rate higher than the health of our kids? We as a nation must accept that until we change our eating habits and teach our children how to make better eating choices, we will not resolve our health problems. Julie Whitlock Richmond, Virginia, U.S. At a time when sports and other extracurricular activities are being cut from schools throughout the U.S., solely getting rid of soda and other sugar-filled drinks...