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...What's spurring this underage boozy behavior? Some point fingers at lax government oversight and barely enforced age limits on drinking. Others, including CASA, place much of the blame on advertisers. Critics charge that sweet, crayon-hued drinks in ads are designed specifically to nab young drinkers. CASA is particularly unhappy with NBC, the only network to break the 50-year voluntary ban on running liquor ads on television...
...ultimate burden of sugar tariffs and subsidies is borne by sweet-toothed folks--and the manufacturers that make their candy. In all, the U.S. General Accounting Office says the program cost consumers and users $1.9 billion in 1998. The tab is pushing manufacturers to close up shop or move out of the country. Chicago-based Brach's announced last year that it would close its large manufacturing plant in the city and shed more than 1,000 jobs; it will outsource candymaking to Argentina's Grupo Arcor. Kraft Foods, meanwhile, intends to close its Holland, Mich., manufacturing facility for Life...
...Thai government cut off aid to the village in 1994, and its inhabitants now survive through tourism and farming. The crisp mountain climate is ideal for growing choice-grade oolong tea, and dozens of Chinese teahouses along the main road serve it up sweet and steaming. There are also strawberry, pear and corn plantations, not to mention a thriving industry in illicit firewater distilled from local fruit and grains...
...took his last will and testament in a Berlin bunker two days before he committed suicide; in Munich. Junge died hours after a documentary on her life had premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. DIED. MICK TUCKER, 54, drummer with leading 1970s British glam-rock band The Sweet, which had a string of hits with songs such as Fox on the Run and Blockbuster, of leukemia; in Welwyn Garden City, England. DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical U.S. criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about prison life were turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly...
...victory was sweet redemption for Gagnon, who had fallen in the 500 finals in his previous two Olympics...