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...increase of 395 percent in press citations discussing commercializing activity in schools. Analyzing the number of press citations gives only an approximate measure of the actual growth of school commercialism. However, the increased media attention to activities such as exclusive vendor agreements with soft drink bottlers, the promotion of junk food and hair care products through in-school sampling and the privatization of public schools in deals with for-profit management companies, suggests that the presence of marketers in schools is indeed growing...
...junk in this building," she says. "We filled up lots of dumpsters with old broken-down furniture...
Despite the volume of "junk" mail that students receive each year, companies that have an interest in selling their product to students say direct mailing is a key to their success...
Unlike regular mail, which usually tapers off after students move into the Houses, credit card offers and other junk mail for College students continue to pile up in the Harvard Yard Mail Center (HYMC) even after those students leave the Yard, says HYMC employee Nassim Kerkache...
More to the point, Ratgate shows what happens to the nervous systems of certain news organizations when they go into withdrawal, deprived of the usual diet of sensational junk to which their bodies have become habituated. What do you do if you're not mainlining 24-hour-a-day Diana or Columbine, or some such? Well, you cast a fevered eye about for something that will do until the real thing comes along again...