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...with the luck to be located in Massachusetts, one might think the Smokeout is a day to rest on our laurels. Harvard buildings are already smoke-free, and on Tuesday the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced that Massachusetts has 150,000 fewer smokers than it did six years ago. Even the rate of teens who are starting to smoke is down slightly. These results, as well as extensive lobbying pressure, have convinced Governor A. Paul Celucci that the tobacco settlement in the budget should be allocated as planned, including $6.7 million to smoking-cessation programs...
...enjoy the companionship of those with similar interests, one side benefit is that the program occasionally inspires funny-sounding e-mail messages from a place apparently named "Johore," a region in Malaysia. At least this is what first-year Altay Guvench found out after he attended RSI two summers ago. Shortly before presenting a final report on his activities at MIT's Lincoln Laboratories, a military research lab, Guvench was informed that his project on submarine communication was not exempt from the lab's six-to-eight week clearance procedure. But somehow a summary of his report was posted...
...even think about trying to sneak in a non-Harvard guest while she's on duty. She is tougher than Annenberg. "I always look at the pictures," Vicky said, "It's a habit. The IDs are not transferable. A couple of years ago, someone lost an ID and stole from the rooms, you know?" The most common way students try to enter illicitly, Vicky said, is through the side door from the small dining room. She glances over to this door, as she checks each ID photo. "Just the other day, some girl gave me an ID card that...
...layer, there are so many signs of global warming that it only makes sense to take some action." One step for Congress: ratifying the emissions-control standards of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty. The measure has been stalled there ever since President Clinton signed it two years ago; the news from up north could be one more bit of ammo for proponents. And with scientists expecting the temperature to grow another 3.5 degrees over the next century, Congressional opponents could find their arguments on thin...
Boys will be boys - except in a growing number of courts, where they are men. A nationwide trend towards trying juveniles as adults was taken to its furthest frontier in recent days when a Michigan court heard the case of Nathaniel Abraham, accused of first-degree murder. Two years ago, the then-11-year-old Abraham borrowed a .22 caliber rifle, sat on a hillside in a Detroit suburb, and shot stranger Ronnie Greene, Jr. in the head. Abraham's lawyers claimed the shooting was accidental; they said he was taking potshots at some trees. The prosecution said he bragged...