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'HAPPY MEAL' FOR ADULTS

McDonald's is test marketing a healthy Happy Meal for adults in Indiana, complete with an adult happy toy.

The $4.99 Go Active meal includes a salad, bottled water, a booklet of exercise tips and a clip-on pedometer to measure one's steps, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

In fact, McDonald's has hired Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer, Bob Greene, to promote the Go Active meal.

Chicago-based food consultant Bob Goldin tells the Sun-Times McDonald's has a "long, long way to go" to cement a reputation for promoting healthy foods, but at least they should be given credit for trying.

WTC SCAMMER GETS MAX SENTENCE

A New York City man will spend the next 11 to 33 years in prison for fabricating a son he claimed died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Prosecutors said 54-year-old Cyril Kendall, the father of 12, made up a 13th son, Wilfred, to con American Red Cross and other charities out of more than $160,000, the New York Post reports.

Kendall, who left court still saying he had lost a child, provided a dossier of misspelled, ungrammatical documents that appeared forged as his defense, plus four of his children testified that Wilfred did exist, but no genuine documents were presented.

"Mr. Kendall has exhibited a total disregard for society and a lack of moral value," said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ronald Zweibel.

SOME TEENS WOULD BE UNETHICAL

Thirty-three percent of teens would act unethically to get ahead or to make more money if there was no chance of getting caught.

But 42 percent say they wouldn't, according to a Junior Achievement/Harris Interactive Poll.

"Even though some of these numbers are disconcerting, the poll also showed that 56 percent of teens do believe that people who are ethical are more successful in business," David S. Chernow, president of Junior Achievement Inc., says in a statement.

According to Barry Salzberg, U.S. Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche, the survey results confirm that ethics education must begin in elementary school.

DISCOUNTS AND DEALS, MORE DRINKING

It's not much of a surprise, but special promotions of alcohol -- such as volume discounts, price specials or coupons -- correlate with higher college binge-drinking rates.

The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, says special promotions and the sale of beer in large-volume units such as kegs or cases were reflected in higher binge-drinking rates.

Emphasis on volume carried over to price. For a 24-can case, the lower the price, the higher the binge-drinking rate at the college. However, low-priced 12-packs of beer did not produce such high rates.

At bars and clubs, lower average alcohol sale prices and weekend beer specials also correlated with higher drinking rates, says study leader Henry Wechsler of Harvard University.