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House panel kills school vending machine ban
Idaho Statesman - Kids, your candy is safe at least for another year. The House Education Committee voted Friday against a bill that would have banned vending machines in elementary schools and limited their contents to healthy snacks in the upper grades
800-Pound Man Needs Help To Receive Lifesaving Program
Click2Houston.com - HOUSTON — The thought of losing 10 to 20 pounds may seem tough. But, imagine trying to lose hundreds of pounds. Weight loss becomes about saving your life more than looking better. A Houston-area man hopes a hospital in another state can help him
Vote blocks vending ban
Idaho Press-Tribune - BOISE Kids, your candy is safe at least for another year. The House Education Committee voted Friday against a bill that would have banned vending machines in elementary schools and limited their contents to healthy snacks in the upper grades
Vote blocks vending ban
Idaho Press-Tribune - BOISE Kids, your candy is safe at least for another year. The House Education Committee voted Friday against a bill that would have banned vending machines in elementary schools and limited their contents to healthy snacks in the upper grades
Teens caught, charged in Sylvania vandalism
Times-Journal - DeKalb County authorities have charged two students, who apparently used their bicycles as get-away vehicles, with the weekend vandalism at Sylvania School. DeKalb County Investigator Rhonda Jackson said a 12-year-old boy and 13-year-old boy were
Junk food bill makes no sense
Dawgnet - The sale of operating rights to seven major ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts has Washington in a frenzy. The news that these operating rights would be going to a company partially state-owned by the United Arab Emirates outraged both parties in
Light rail seeks out fare plans
AZCentral.com - Confused passengers are to mass transit what clots are to arteries. They fumble for change or jam their tickets in turnstiles. Lines of frustrated patrons fume as they miss their light-rail trains. They can even delay the trains, throwing a system
Lalu unveils populist railway budget
Silicon India - NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today unveiled a surplus railway budget, without increasing second-class passenger fares and decreasing AC fares, diesel and freight rates. He announced 18 percent reduction in AC first-class and 10
DVDs top McDonald s
Video Business - FEB. 24 | Following a successful limited test, McDonald s is set to sell DVDs in all of its U.S. markets with Redbox vending machines. Buena Vista Home Entertainment s Lady and the Tramp will be offered first on Feb. 28 in St. Louis, Baltimore
21 workers win cruise, thanks to company’s fitness challenge
Oakland Press - INDEPENDENCE TWP. - Mark Wayne is footing the $50,000 bill to take 21 of his employees on a tropical cruise - not just because he’s a good soul. “It’s a great way to spend dollars because we’re accomplishing something more long-lasting than the
Op-Ed Contributor: Eating for Credit
New York Times - IT’S shocking that because of the rise in Type 2 diabetes experts say that the children we’re raising now will probably die younger than their parents the result of a disease that is largely preventable by diet and exercise. But in public schools
Transit district releases goals, accomplishments
Coast News - OCEANSIDE Record ridership, reduced bus emissions and plans for the future Sprinter light rail line are just a few of the accomplishments and goals presented in an update of the North County Transit District. The Report to the Community 2006
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The Motley Fool - Feb 23 9:11 AM
They weigh down our wallets, rattle around in our vacuum cleaners, and are summarily dismissed by most vending machines. You never have enough when you need them, yet their value is so inconsequential that store clerks leave bowls of them by the checkout counter completely unguarded.Save to My Web
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Roanoke Times - Feb 21 10:42 PM
On Friday afternoon, 12-year-old Dane Leehman bounded in from school and like so many kids, made a straight shot for the fridge. But unlike many other kids, he didn’t pull out Ho Hos and soda.Save to My Web
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Hour.ca - Feb 22 9:47 PM
Get your quarters ready because your local watering hole or restaurant might soon be home to the latest in retro technology: the digital jukebox. One has already made its way to le-Bizard. Will the Main be next?Save to My Web
Grab a piece of our agricultural past
Cambridge Evening News - Feb 22 9:14 AM
AGRICULTURAL memorabilia and collectables are up for sale.Save to My Web
Employers sabotage workers’ health with vending options
Salem Statesman Journal, OR - Feb 20, 2006 snacks? That’s what’s available in the vending machines at work. And it doesn’t make sense. It’s not as if the mechanics don’t care.
Weist: Should the state curb junk food in schools?
Canyon Courier, CO - Feb 16, 2006 So I do agree with all the shiny, eager witnesses from the hearing on legislation to put fruits and vegetables in vending machines at schools.
Robots used to keep Japan’s children safe
United Press International - Feb 22, 2006 Earlier this week the Chuo Elementary School in Osaka’s Chuo district started using vending machines as a way to keep an eye out for children getting to school
The Beautiful Life
College Times, Arizona - Feb 22, 2006 If you go to normal jail, the vending machines dispense stuff like peanuts and candy bars. In normal jail, they have big coolers
Passenger amenities to be augmented in 2006 : Lalu
Webindia123, India - 5 hours ago In a new endeavour, the Railways is to introduce a pilot project to install 200 automatic ticket vending machines in Mumbai suburban area of Central and
School Vending Machines
KKTV 11 News, CO - Jan 26, 2006 That’s why they gave initial approval to a bill Thursday that would require schools to stock half of all their vending machines with nutritious snacks.
Lawmaker Seeks To Ban Elementary School Vending Machines
KIFI, ID - Feb 13, 2006 BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The House Education Committee has agreed to take testimony on a bill that would ban vending machines in elementary schools — and limit the
Is Convenience Killing Us?
Exzibit.net - 6 hours ago healthy. Research shows that in the US there are over 170,000 fast-food restaurants and three million soft drink vending machines. The
University gets green vending machines
Malaysia Sun, Malaysia - Feb 18, 2006 The University at Buffalo bills itself as the first university in the nation to replace its campus-wide beverage vending machines with green technology.
Junk Food Ban?
KVAL, OR - Feb 22, 2006 Nearly one hundred people showed up at the meeting to talk about what they want to see and not see in school vending machines. Some
Does this transit elbow out the masses?
Los Angeles Times, CA - Feb 22, 2006 They made sure the stops resemble full-service rail stations, with canopies, ticket-vending machines and digital displays to announce the next vehicle’s
Schools to reduce temp in classrooms
York County Coast Star - KENNEBUNK MSAD 71 Operations and Facilities Director Tom Maines is at it again doing his best impersonation of an accountant. Maines showed his flair for the fine details back in early September 2005 when he worked with manufacturers to
Project Aims To Improve Student Nutrition
CBS 2 Chicago - (CBS) Childhood obesity and diabetes rates are rising. One potential cause is unhealthy food eaten by kids. As CBS 2 Medical Editor Mary Ann Childers reports, a project in a dozen Illinois schools has uncovered some interesting ways to change the
What’s Bob Bloom watching this week?
Lafayette Journal and Courier - The sheriff’s department is becoming more proactive in locating the county’s 180 sex offenders. Find out how Thursday. Women’s Big Ten title hopes at stake It’s a simple scenario facing the Purdue women’s basketball team. Win Thursday at No. 6 Ohio
City deals with water challenge
St. Cloud Times - Place of Hope trucked in bottled water Tuesday morning after news spread of possible E. coli contamination of St. Cloud’s water supply. By 8 a.m. the nonprofit organization sent a truck to pick up a donation of 1,260 gallons of water from an agency
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Lottery tips off companies to records request
Des Moines Register - Re: Request for sales data in TouchPlay program The Iowa Lottery has received a media request for information relating to sales in the TouchPlay program. A reporter from The Des Moines Register has requested sales data in the TouchPlay program, with
ROUTE PROFESSIONAL
Kingsport Times-News - JOIN OUR WINNING TEAM AS A ROUTE PROFESSIONAL. GTS REFRESHMENT SERVICES, A full time vending and commercial food/beverage service company seeks top candidates routes position. responsibilities include: stocking, merchandising, cleaning & maintaining
Overhaul of city electrical distribution system needed
Swift County Monitor - When electricity is wheeled into the City of Benson, it comes into two large sub-station transformers that step it down for distribution on the local electrical grid. Both transformers are aging and reaching the end of their expected useful lives. In
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Lafayette Journal and Courier - About the bill: Senate Bill 111 would force schools to promote more physical activities and limit their vending machine sales so that at least 50 percent of the food items available would be “better choice foods” and “better choice beverages” by
Safeway shoppers get techie fix
Alameda Times-Star - ONE OF THE NEWEST trends in retailing sits between the margarita mix and gumball machines at the Safeway in Denver’s Mayfair neighborhood. It’s a vending machine. But a pocketful of quarters won’t buy you a soda or a bag of pretzels. This sleek black
Healey blasts Legislature for `wrong priorities’
Gainesville Sun - he Legislature has “the wrong priorities,” delaying action on matters important to Massachusetts residents such as protecting witnesses from intimidation and electronically tracking those convicted of domestic violence, Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey said