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...convinced. You can be dubious about global warming if you want - but not about cigarettes. They absolutely do cause cancer, vascular and lung disease - the things that kill most of us. I've watched scores quit too, seen their skin get pinker, their wounds heal faster, their lungs work better. It's true: No matter when they quit they're better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing Health Care Cheaply, Chapter 1: Butt Out | 4/4/2009 | See Source »

...think anyone will be feeling very confident saying that in this environment, but...I simply and honestly can’t imagine how the office would function,” Coontz said.But fears of the harsh economic reality of joblessness have convinced some staffers that they may be better off taking their chances and staying where they are—for now, at least.“I’m not taking it,” said an eligible administrator in the department of molecular and cellular biology. “I would really love to retire?...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staff Decide On Early Buyouts | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

ROLE MODEL: Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. That’s right. What better way to plaster yourself all over national media than bigamy and über-vintage outfits? And with costumes like these, you’ll be instantly recognizable...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom | Title: When I Grow Up... | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...gift of video iPod by to Queen Elizabeth is treated by hysterical U.S. media as some kind of earth-shattering gaffe, as if the fabulous gift presented by the Queen - a silver-framed photo of the Royal couple - demanded something so much better in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...Baitullah is much stronger, much better. His way of talking, how he acts - he is a much more powerful leader." -Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, Pakistan bureau chief for al-Jazeera, weighing in on comparisons between Mehsud and Mullah Omar, the famously reclusive leader of the Afghan Taliban. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taliban Commander Baitullah Mehsud | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

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