"according to a health and nutrition spokesperson for Coke quoted in the Times article. Says Kari L. Bjorhus, 'We do not believe that having vending machines in schools represents a commercial presence in the classroom because the machines aren't in the classroom.' Guess we can't argue with that...."

The post also has a link to an important new study by Alex Molnar of Arizona State University: No Student Left Unsold, The Sixth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends, October 2003.