When I was in high school, the student newspaper office had this machine that dispensed the tiny bottles of Coke that some of you might remember. Guzzling a few of those -- about three good gulps each -- got me through more than one day. Thank goodness the health police weren't around then:
Tens of millions of students will no longer be able to buy non-diet sodas in the nation's public schools under an agreement announced Wednesday between major beverage distributors and anti-obesity advocates.
The distributors, working with a joint initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, also have agreed to sell only water, juice and low-fat milks to elementary and middle schools, said Jay Carson, a spokesman for former President Clinton.
On the other hand, a marketplace of illegal drugs wasn't available within spitting distance of homeroom back then, and we didn't even have MySpace to relieve the boredom. We had to take what we could get.
