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...travelers are getting so large, they're dragging down the airline industry. The weight of the average U.S. adult has increased about 10 lbs. since the early 1990s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and it's costing millions of dollars more for airlines to haul the heavier load. In a letter to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control calculated that planes burned 350 million gal. more fuel in 2000--at an additional cost of $275 million--than they would have if passengers had weighed on average 10 lbs. less. There...
...solicitation policy (similar to that of many retail chains). "It opens the door to any other groups that wish to solicit our guests," said a Target official. In 2003 bell ringers received $8.8 million from Target shoppers--nearly a tenth of the Salvation Army's total $93.8 million holiday haul. Several Christian groups, including Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association, have protested the ban and are encouraging their members to shop elsewhere. Fears of a boycott led Mervyn's, a former Target subsidiary, to reverse its own ban last week, but so far Target...
...tailgate faced increased oversight this year in response to police and College concerns about underage and binge drinking. The athletic department banned U-Haul trucks, which tore up the fields in 2002. The College also centralized beer distribution and required students wear wristbands to indicate that they were old enough to drink...
Take 1,000 part students, add 100 gallons of schnapps-spiked hot chocolate and a dash of pulsing hip-hop. Garnish with fake U-Haul. Shake, but don’t stir, and you’ve got yourself a tailgate...
...bracelets didn’t stop underage drinkers from obtaining alcohol at any of dozens of student group booths, and despite the Council taxation, HoCos still found ways to be creative: Lowell House poured sand and set up a beach, and Mather House built a wooden U-Haul...