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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Classes take on ads for alcohol
Project aimed at middle schoolers





Sepyember 13, 2007
Mandy Locke and J. Peder Zane, Staff Writers

As a lawyer, Mary Easley squared off with bad guys she sent to jail. As North Carolina's first lady, she is picking a fight with Captain Morgan and a buxom robot with a keg of Heineken stashed in her chest.

Easley intends to keep young people from drinking by pummeling the alcohol icons with straight talk. In a program she announced Wednesday, North Carolina teachers will tell middle schoolers that beer brewers are lying to them.
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