Three-quarters claim to brush their teeth twice a day, squeezing out an average of four toothpaste tubes a year, against three in Britain.

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With that sort of incentive, toothpaste tubes need not come in redundant cardboard boxes and television sets can leave the store with no boxes at all.

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Over the course of two years it funds three dozen PC disk-drive companies, all as alike as tubes of toothpaste.

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That leaves two-thirds of us "premium" business travelers who, when being frisked for tiny tubes of toothpaste, don't feel so premium.

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The general sense is that the TSA has mostly stopped calling out travelers who leave their deadly tubes of toothpaste in their bags or dare to carry more than three ounces of shampoo.

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