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...Recent efforts to corral tobacco use by countries such as Scotland and Ireland, which banned smoking in bars, restaurants and public places, have led to significant drops in cigarette use and in hospitalizations for heart attacks. Any changes in the incidence of cancer, which takes longer to develop, may appear in coming years. A wide-ranging cancer prevention program adopted by the European Union in 1985 helped the continent avoid 98,000 cancer deaths...
...have this thing where we don’t appear at the same time. We don’t do it intentionally, but it just happens. It’s actually because we’re the same person. It’s one of the best-kept secrets of the campaign,” Petri reveals...
...According to Nancy G. Walser, who was a member of the committee at the time, the idea went “nowhere so fast that there was no vote, no extended discussion, no hearing.” She said that the majority of the committee did not appear to be interested in pursuing the plan because it was based on a financial, rather than educational, rationale...
...Receivables Office is not an extremely difficult task. These people would miss the point. The UC shouldn’t look on in silence while the administration limits their constituency’s freedom with regard to the fee’s payment. Such quiet complicity makes the Council appear desperate for funding, and happy to wrest money from students who otherwise wouldn’t want to pay. The UC constitution claims that it represents the entire undergraduate student body, not just students who fund it. Even if the UC doesn’t organize the opt-out process...
...democratic sensibilities about government held by many, if not most, Americans. We like to think that in America anyone—even the descendant of an East-African goatherd—can become president. Anyone, nowadays at least, who has gone to Harvard.While a government of elites may appear obnoxious to American democratic impulses, for the most part the supposed intellectual quality of the Obama administration elicits praise and not blame. For in America, the aristocracy—at least, as it considers itself—is in fact a meritocracy, since the contemporary arbiters of prestige?...