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...smokers, one day a year isn't so bad to have to confront the truth: cigarettes kill. "Probably the group with the least amount of people wanting to stop smoking are the teenage and young adult smokers, and that is disturbing for all of us," says Jim R. Giebfried, director of cessation programs in Massachusetts for the American Cancer Society and the Smoker's Quit Line (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP). "Very often college students are in a location where they may be affected by other smokers, like at parties," said Giebfried, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public...
...ocean, global water levels will remain roughly the same. While the melting has been linked to changing wind patterns around the Arctic, researchers aren't sure whether this is a direct result of global warming. Still, the news does reflect several possibly scary trends. "We know that the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere have increased dramatically and we know that temperatures are rising," says TIME environmental editor Charles Alexander. "With the thinning of the ice layer, there are so many signs of global warming that it only makes sense to take some action." One step for Congress: ratifying...
...more Asian-American college presidents? It appears to me that they're not getting the kind of opportunities they should for making such a large amount of progress in a short period of time," she says...
...most Chihuahua factories, the lowest-paid worker earns about $10 per day, including benefits, he says. Doctors are on hand in some factories in case employees get hurt, and day care is available for children. For lunch, companies provide cafeterias that charge a negligible amount for food, he says...
Kuhn responded to the claims of false advertising by noting that consumers understand that savings of "up to 40 percent" does not imply that all books are discounted by that amount. He said consumers are capable of informed comparative shopping...