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Miami officials this week were offering arriving Super Bowl fans tips on how to avoid being mugged. It is not known whether they offered the same advice to San Diego...
Former Vice President Dan Quayle got flak for demeaning the office by popping up in a "Wavy Lays" chip commercial during last year's Super Bowl, but liberal stalwarts Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards have nothing left to lose. The Democratic ex-governors of New York and Texas will appear in a 30-second ad during this Sunday's big game, swapping some tongue-in-cheek advice: "I should have seen it coming," says Richards. Replies Cuomo: "Maybe so, but now I think we ought to accept this change, embrace it, be positive about it, because change can be very...
...defied the House Democratic Caucus to endorse the Republican-backed balanced budget amendment. The GOP now has the 290 votes it needs to pass the bill. The Democratic support is conditional, though: the GOP would have to give up on a part of the legislation that would require a super majority (3/5) vote in both the House and Senate on any bill that raises income taxes. The amendment bill won't be voted on until work is finished on legislation blocking unfunded mandates -- something House Speaker Newt Gingrich has said is priority one. Work on that measure is temporarily stalled...
...school nutritionist compete against BigFoot pizzas and Super- Size fries? The $50,000 the U.S. government allots each state annually to teach kids to eat right is lost next to the billions spent designing food and packaging that will ring the kids' Pavlovian bells. A telling statistic: Kellogg's in 1993 spent $32 million advertising a single product: Frosted Flakes. By comparison, last year the produce industry spent $55 million on an educational program to promote its entire product line, from asparagus to zucchini...
...Diego is sent to Miami, the Super Bowl should be called off. Seriously, does anyone outside of San Diego--Dr. Z not included--think this team can beat either the Cow Boys or the Niners...