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Ban on snack machines

PARIS: Revolutions in France have started for less. But it was with something approaching equanimity that the nation's schoolchildren have returned to their colleges and lycees to find that every last food-and-drink-vending machine — 22,650 of them — had been removed. A straw poll of 17-year-olds outside the Lycee Condorcet in Paris's ninth arrondissement found only a handful who thought the machines' disappearance was a bad thing. —

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