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Creeping nanny state alert: eating cafeteria food is mandatory in some Chicago schools: because the principal insists on only healthy foods.
But some students don't like it:

Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school.

"Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?" the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English.

Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: "We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!"

Fernando waved his hand over the crowd and asked a visiting reporter: "Do you see the situation?"

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another Koran burned.....in Iran.

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Ghadaffy accepts African union's peace plan.

Sure why not: He has bribed most of them already to support him, so he's not worried about their bias.

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The real battle, however, is not in Libya but in Syria, as formerspook explains.

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With the increase in oil prices, prices for jeepneys and tricycles and propane for cooking is going up, but the real worry is the increase in rice prices.

But don't worry: The environmentalists are working to keep Mindanao poor by blocking a coal plant to produce electricity that is greatly needed in this poor area.