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Kids Love Hot Cheetos But Schools Hate Them

By Luke Burbank

Published May 9, 2006 at 4:00 PM EDT

Olivia Thomas, 11, is a 5th grader at Jackson Elementary School in Pasadena, Calif., and a big fan of Hot Cheetos.

Luke Burbank

Luke Burbank is kind of amazed that NPR is letting him co-host its new morning show, The Bryant Park Project, NPR's new morning news show launched on October 1, 2007.

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When two Bank of America employees reworked the song "One" for a company conference, they could never have known that the video would end up on youtube.com. The song is so bad that it has become an Internet phenomenon, and Universal Music, who owns the rights to the original U2 song, is not amused.
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