They killed Tony the Tiger. They did away with Cheetos’ Chester Cheetah. They banned Kinder Surprise, the chocolate eggs with a hidden toy. The Chilean government, facing skyrocketing rates of obesity, is waging war on unhealthy foods with a phalanx of marketing restrictions, mandatory packaging redesigns and labeling rules aimed at transforming the eating habits of 18 million people.
It is allegedly one of Steve Bannon’s favorite books—and on the right, he is not alone.
Girls' Club (2, 3, 4); Latin Club (2); Spanish Club (3)
The suspects left in a cream-colored SUV.
The opening of the Beltline in 1950 and the extension of streets like Midvale Boulevard to the south spurred the West Side’s postwar housing boom. In the mid- to late-1950s, two- and three-bedroom houses with attached one- or two-stall garages began rising from the farm fields in what would become Meadowood.
Posters professing to be long-term residents wrote of their dismay about changes in the neighborhood in recent years. Some talked of crime in the area, others of running into behavior that intimidated them at the strip mall at Whitney Way and Raymond Road where the hardware store is located.
Soglin said the neighborhood has been struggling for well over a decade. “The problems were not addressed at a very critical juncture when the neighborhood started changing in terms of more low-income families, without the resources -- particularly for young people -- in the area,” he told me.
While southern Wisconsin was seeing 5 to 7 inches of snow, with the most to the south and least to the north, northern Illinois was seeing 9 to 11 inches and the Chicago area might see more than a foot, the Weather Service said.
The U.S.’s total market share of long-haul travel fell to 11.9 percent last year, down from 12.9 percent in 2016 and from 13.6 percent in 2015, according to the U.S. Travel Association. The U.S. was joined only by Turkey—a country currently in political turmoil, having faced a military coup on July 15, 2016—as the only two countries out of the world’s top 12 destinations to have seen a significant drop in inbound international travel over the last two years—Turkey (6.7 percent) and the U.S. (6 percent). In comparison, Saudi Arabia saw its arrivals climb 20.3 percent from 2015 to 2017. [emphasis added]
As more international travelers decide to skip the United States, 10 business associations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Restaurant Association, have created a travel industry group aimed at reversing the growing unpopularity of the U.S. as a vacation destination.
Brownback pushed through the excessive and unfair income tax cuts in 2012, contending at the time they would help woo new jobs to Kansas. In turn, businesses would create more revenue to fill in the money that was being lost through the tax cuts.
That plan has not worked.
"Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache," said Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou at a recent year-end party, adding that he wants to learn from Chin Shih-chien, director of Taipei Zoo, regarding how animals should be managed.
York County's free public library system is downsizing -- trimming hours, employee schedules and the purchase of new releases -- because of a $300,000 budget cut. That cut came in December when county commissioners diverted more resources to combat the heroin and opioid crisis that has gripped the city, county, state and nation.Two examples of cuts in hours:
