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...this keeps up, food targeted to women may need its own aisle in the supermarket, alongside dairy, paper products and pet supplies. Clearly, some female shoppers respond to food designed with their nutritional needs in mind. But do they really need to buy special oatmeal just because they were born with an extra X chromosome instead of a Y? "Somehow as a gender we've done fine for thousands of years without our own breakfast cereal," says Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University...
...forged car and motorcycle plates. Children, too, are in on the game. In the northeastern city of Changchun, vendors loiter near school grounds, enticing students who want to please parents with proof of academic success. A fake class-monitor certificate, which normally goes to an obedient teacher's pet, sells for just 12. That's lunch money, even in China?and it sure beats studying...
...there is a malfunction in the smart mechanical pet...
...leader Tom Daschle tried to delay the bill, but he was undermined when four Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee--its ranking member, Max Baucus of Montana, John Breaux of Louisiana, Arkansas moderate Blanche Lincoln, and the embattled Robert Torricelli of New Jersey--cut separate deals to get their pet rocks in the bill. They then signed on to the G.O.P. plan...
...third party candidate, against the President in 2004. No way, says McCain. But the two men certainly are acting like campaign opponents. The Arizona Senator votes with Democrats on a number of issues and practically every Democratic senator running for President has gotten him to co-sponsor a pet bill. Bush, for his part, keeps trying to preempt McCain - for example, endorsing a rival patient's bill of rights instead of the one the Senator is co-sponsoring. Senate Democrats have discussed among themselves the possibility of McCain switching sides, though no one has yet proffered a serious invitation...