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Article: Rainbow bracelets benefits some sweet causes.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 10, 2004
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By Gregory J. Gilligan, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 10--Those colored rubber wristbands are everywhere.
Bracelets in yellow, green, pink, blue, orange and red have become the buzz among students in middle school, high school and college -- with many of them wearing two or three on their wrists at a time.
Even adults put them on.
The wristbands have become a cultural craze, similar to the POW bracelets during the Vietnam era. Some of the bracelets are so trendy it can take weeks to get one.
"They are all real popular," said Krista Chabris, an eighth-grader at Midlothian Middle ...