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...this smoke-free piety went out in January with the arrival of the new Republican majority. Some of the top men in the House leadership are avid tobacco users. House majority leader Dick Armey and Republican Conference chairman John Boehner puff cigarettes, and House majority whip Tom DeLay often sports a wad of tobacco inside his lower lip. In the 104th Congress, smoking defines the angry-white-male revolution. It is the congressional equivalent of Ronald Reagan reaching for the Clint Eastwood "make-my-day" mythology. They're not politicians; they're Marlboro...
...else but Disney would try to convince America that a twoton elephant could be air-dropped from a military cargo plane into a remote Vietnamese mountain village? This latest creation from the Magic Kingdom could be easily passed over by the avid moviegoer--if only it weren't a true story...
...church. Their vocals are thus full of transporting religious passion, redirected to more worldly concerns. Xscape comprises two sisters, Latocha and Tamika Scott, and two of their friends, Kandi Burruss and Tameka Cottle. The members of the Atlanta-based group became friends in grade school. The Scotts were avid churchgoers, Burruss says, and "if you hung with them, you had to go to church every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday." All four ended up in the choir together...
...worried should Americans be? Plenty, suggests David Quinn, 41, who lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York. An avid jogger, Quinn was stretching in his backyard when he spotted a little black dot on his leg. Once he realized that it was a tick, he quickly removed it with a pair of tweezers. But not quickly enough. Four days later, Quinn fell violently ill. "I had a fever of 102 degrees, and it felt like a hammer was banging in my head," he recalls. "I couldn't keep my head up, but I couldn't lie down either because my back...
Conway's wife Jill, who was president of SmithCollege and is presently a visiting professor ofscience, technology and society at MIT, said herhusband was an avid gardener and had a passion formusic, ballet, outdoor hikes, animals and "anybodywho was generally curious...