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...great physics" - meaning people and things bounce around and get shot much as they would in the real world). So while the general look of games improves every year, most of them look the same, and original content is hard to find. It's like being at a soda convention, trying to get excited about the new packaging that Coke and Pepsi and hundreds of imitators have all started using...
...single serving dinners, cheap furniture catalogs and self-help meetings for illnesses he doesn’t have. He finds salvation in his new friend Tyler Durden (Pitt) and the founding of a fight club that soon spins out of control. The screening is free, and popcorn and soda will be served. Thursday, April 24 at 7 p.m., Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design...
There are indeed many valid criticisms of the soft drink deals, which are more involved than simply situating soda machines in prominent places for luring fickle high school consumers. Contracts not only require exclusivity in campus soft drink sales but often provide companies with advertising perks—not to mention access to a much sought-after (and impressionable) population of future buyers. These marketing practices, alongside frighteningly unhealthy offerings in school cafeterias, are only feeding into a serious public health epidemic...
That is not to say schools should necessarily submit to just any soda company marketing deal that comes their way. Contracts that grant excessive freedom to advertise on campuses, inundate students with corporate-sponsored materials or attempt to override the autonomy of school administrators in their determination of school policies—such as banning beverages from classrooms—are contemptible. In many cases, however, an appropriate balance can be reached that allows schools to receive needed cash without sacrificing the learning environment to full corporate sponsorship...
...organizations lobbying to curtail bulging childhood obesity rates should certainly be commended for doing their part to raise awareness of the issues. Obesity has been linked to myriad health problems, and the excessive quantities of soda children consume these days—the typical teenage boy consumes just under seven ounces of soda daily—together with devastatingly sedentary lifestyles have left the health of our youth in dangerous shape. But banning soft drink contracts from schools will not make children healthier; it is the responsibility of parents and young people on their own to monitor consumption habits. More...