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Moreover, there are alarming signs that the next generation may be in even worse shape by the time it comes of age. The percentage of teens who are overweight, which held steady at about 15% through the 1970s, rose to 21% by 1991. "The kids eat nothing but junk food," says Liam Hennessey, a special- ed teacher from San Francisco who watches students on school trips open the lunches their parents pack for them, gobble up the Oreos and Pop-Tarts and toss out the sandwiches...
...thing that has changed is the cost of eating right. "Junk food is pretty cheap," notes San Francisco lawyer Peter Haley. A Burger King meal may be more expensive than one that is home cooked, but calorie for calorie, burgers are cheaper than the salad bar or the fare at fancier restaurants that serve vegetables. And eating out is a lot easier than chopping broccoli and cauliflower in your own kitchen...
...Internet E-mail addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that has an ad, and in a little bit of time, the manufacturer can start sending you junk mail," David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor, told TIME Daily. The next step, Farber and others theorize, is a credit-card-like record of what you've bought over the Net and which political discussion groups you've perused. Web programmers, who never intended such consequences...
...junk mail is probably not that much different from most students. The piles of unopened envelopes in campus trash cans suggest that I'm not the only Harvard undergrad these credit card companies find so attractive...
...think there's a boundary between what's art and what's junk," she continued. "Twenty-five dollars worth of plastic is junk. That whole exhibit was a fraud...