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Movie characters light up more often than people do in real life, argues Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who has launched a "Smoke-Free Movies" newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured 50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco use in films last year occurred in movies rated G, PG and PG-13. With teen smoking up dramatically in the past...
...There were dot paintings, square paintings, crosshatch paintings and linear ones. The grammar of his compositions was always explicit but, at the same time, often surprising. He loved ruins, ideal scenery, viaducts, pyramids and everything that seemed both ancient and vulnerable: the stability of the pyramidal mountain in Ad Parnassum, 1932 (which translates as "To Parnassus," the mythical mountain of Apollo and the Muses), is decidedly undermined by being constructed from a faux mosaic of minuscule tiles of color...
What's the best way to save for college? This isn't a multiple-choice question." So says a new ad from Fidelity soliciting contributions to its Section 529 State Sponsored College Savings Plans. But the ad is wrong. You do have a number of choices. Though changes in U.S. tax laws that take effect this year make saving for education more attractive, they also make it more complicated. Choose from among these answers...
...found an eerie letter in his mailbox. "Do you feel that you've lost control of your life? Are you struggling to balance your work and family responsibilities? If so, then Dr. Ken Dychtwald can help you." Accidentally, a company that makes self-help tapes had sent him an ad for a set that he himself had recorded. Dychtwald laughed off the incident. But two years ago, as he prepared to celebrate his 50th birthday, Dychtwald realized that he really did need his own advice...
Most of the papers—including The Crimson—declined to publish the ad, but papers at Brown and the University of California, Berkeley did print it, drawing student protest on both campuses...