Only in the Bay Area can you get that rare mix of political/protest activism and the vanity of maintaining a slender figure.

In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the Federal Building staged a "vomit in,'' by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the building to show that the war in Iraq made them sick, according to a spokesman.

You never knew bulimia was really a protest statement, did you?