So, here I sit with my bowl of carrot sticks reading through my new Weight Watchers literature.

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Healthy snacks like carrot sticks, celery sticks, apples, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, grapes and granola have enough crunch to keep you awake.

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Other near-perfect snacks are carrot sticks and hummus, low-fat or air-popped popcorn sprinkled with parmesan cheese, cantaloupe melon wedges wrapped in smoked salmon and low-fat cheese on whole-grain crackers.

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To make automakers that bold today, how about a real carrot, not just sticks painted orange?

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Instead, we must pass No Pass, No Drive statutes and their equivalents to insure that there are bona fide sticks to balance out the easily gamed carrot of a high school diploma.

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