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...advertising restrictions. Fewer than 20% of adult Americans now smoke - the lowest rate since reliable records have been kept - and a tobacco crackdown is under way in Europe, Canada and elsewhere. In April, Congress boosted federal cigarette taxes threefold, from 32 cents a pack to $1. In June, President Barack Obama signed a law giving the FDA the power to regulate cigarettes like any other food or drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights on Africa | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

UPDATED 5:38 P.M. President Barack Obama conceded Friday that he had erred in his "choice of words" in criticizing the Cambridge Police Department for arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. last week...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Obama Backs Off Gates Remarks After Police Ask for Apology | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...Perhaps the most interesting element of the entire affair, though, was hearing the Commander-in-Chief weigh in. Barack Obama usually treats discussions of race like trips to the dentist—occasional, unpleasant necessities to be avoided whenever possible. But on Wednesday night, in a primetime news conference, the President was strikingly candid...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Professor, the Policeman, and the President | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...comments, claiming that his statement was “pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don’t need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who’s in his own home.” But the fact that the unflappable Barack Obama, even for a minute, was willing to confront uncomfortable facts about race in America shows how close to home the Gates arrest hits for the President...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Professor, the Policeman, and the President | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Cheney, Liz • increasing difficulty of in accepting that - ha ha! - father of is no longer in power and - ha ha ha ha! - Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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