Now sensors on a U.A.V. can detect a milk carton from sixty thousand feet.

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Ms. PEGGY LEE (School Lunch Administrator): And I remember sitting in a cafeteria in elementary school and I didn't want my peas and I put them in my milk carton beca--and tried to hide them because the teacher wouldn't let me go until I'd eaten all my peas.

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As milk-carton-size icebergs bobbed around me, I told myself this was how major leaguers make it through a 162-game season in 181 days.

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Now, a filling has a limited shelf life, like a carton of milk.

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Farina, cold toast, a pat of butter, a carton of milk, juice if I was early enough, and coffee.

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For each product category a 16-ounce carton of milk, say well-off households paid an average of 25% more than poor households.

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The "Lebowski Fest" slated for Los Angeles March 22-23 features the actors who played Woo, The Malibu Sheriff and the Ralph's check-out girl who watched The Dude write a 69 cent check for a carton of milk.

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People should walk and bike more and quit pointing a finger at the rising cost of petrol and instead poke at the huge gut they develop from driving two blocks just to pick up a carton of milk.

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For example, in 2011's Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Shia LaBeouf wears a T-shirt made by Chinese clothing maker Metersbonwe and, in one scene, a character drinks a carton of Shuhua milk made by dairy group Yili.

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To ensure that consumers have a consistent product day to day, month to month and year to year, producers regulate the composition of milk fat, so contents of every like carton are indistinguishable, and of course, remain true to the nutritional information on the packaging.

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