Word: midday
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...scrub and 240 km north of Port Hedland, a gray-haired multitude has gathered at the end of a gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part of the SKI club: Spending the Kids' Inheritance...
...first learned of the DUI arrest when one of Levin's sources phoned him on midday Friday. When he subsequently heard that the episode didn't occur without incident, as the Sheriff's office had asserted, Levin obtained from his sources accounts of Gibson's actions and comments, as well as the complete report the arresting officer, deputy James Mee, filed that quoted Gibson's statements about Jews. Thus, a scoop was born...
...environments, is seeing the change in corporate attitudes firsthand. The New York City-- based company opened its first sleep-pod center in 2004 in the Empire State Building, a place where workers could pay $14 and discreetly tuck in to one of the pod-shaped, hooded recliners for a midday nap and recharge for 20 minutes. The company is expanding the concept with franchises -- the first one opened in New York City's financial district in March -- but MetroNaps co-founder Arshad Chowdhury says he is discovering a new line of business in pods for office use. As he scouted...
...soda represents less than half of school vending-machine sales, with fatty and sugary snacks making up the rest. And since school administrators are hardly likely to conduct beverage pat-downs, nothing will prevent kids from bringing sodas to school or ducking out to a 7-Eleven for a midday sugar shot. "The soda agreement looks like a step in the right direction," says Marion Nestle, nutrition expert at New York University, "but I can't help being skeptical...
...Sources of Vitamin D and Calcium: ? Vitamin D (400 IU to 600 IU needed daily): sunlight (as much as 20,000 IU in 15 min. at midday), salmon (103 IU per oz., or 28 g), fortified milk (12.5 per fl. oz. [30 ml]), fortified orange juice (12.5) ? Calcium (1,000 mg to 1,500 mg needed daily): Atlantic sardines (108 mg per oz. [28 g]), canned salmon (68), low-fat plain yogurt (52), tofu (30), canned white beans (21) and regular skim milk...