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Asked whether he would back a federal ban on smoking in the workplace or public spaces, Bloomberg said he would, but added, "I don't think the federal government should prohibit the manufacture or sale of cigarettes," but that combatting tobacco should mean diminishing the demand...
...Garry Kasparov's tribute to the late, great Bobby Fischer [Feb. 4]. Chess is thriving where I live, but many talented young players have never heard of Fischer, and those who have do not view him positively. It is sad that he was never pardoned for violating a U.S. ban by playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia. He was a chess champion who was not welcome in his own country. I think that may be partly to blame for his mental breakdown. He spent so much of his life as a fugitive-simply for playing a game of chess. Lauren...
...Louis Baby Tooth Survey to study the effects of nuclear fallout on children. By 1970 the team had collected 300,000 shed primary teeth, which, they discovered, had absorbed nuclear waste from the milk of cows that were fed contaminated grass. The study helped establish an early-'60s ban on aboveground A-bomb testing and led to similar surveys across the U.S. and the rest of the world. Bauer...
...bipartisan ban in the intelligence bill, put forward by Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, still faces Republican opposition, while the intelligence bill as a whole could face a presidential veto because if it does not grant amnesty to telephone companies who participated in possibly illegal wiretapping of Americans, as requested by the Bush Administration...
...Tanzanian Jakaya Kikwete, pledged that "in case of a rebel victory, we'll excommunicate them from the African Union". Even the region's former bad boy sponsor of rebellions, Libyan leader Mohammar Ghaddafi, condemned the rebel offensive as "a flagrant violation" of African security accords. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon noted that with violence and instability rife in throughout the area, "these developments are extremely dangerous, and could provoke an escalation throughout the region...