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...studies showing that marijuana can have addictive properties, though in a small percentage of cases, is going to make some parents more nervous about their kids turning into potheads. While alcohol and cigarettes may be more dangerous, a lot of parents would rather smell beer on their kid's breath than have a 29-year-old living at home, eating Cheetos and watching SpongeBob. --With reporting by Matt Baron/Chicago, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Viveca Novak/Washington and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
...With a notebook computer open on the desk in front of him, Aa Gym hardly pauses for breath as he tapes 13 sleek homilies in a row, all exactly timed to 11/2 minutes with the help of an aide crouching in front of his desk with a stopwatch. "I could make 40 or 60 in a row if I had to," he says, squatting to pose with the children of two families of admirers who have traveled from distant Sulawesi to catch a glimpse of him. "It's easy for me to give those speeches because I do those things...
...still dark out, and cold enough for breath to be visible even though it’s only October. It will be drizzling and disgusting later today, but for now it’s still crisp and cool. For someone who is usually asleep for another six hours, Cambridge before dawn is kind of exciting. For the Army MSIIIs, or juniors, who have to fill out a quiz on military tactics for homework, it is routine. The van ride to MIT, where ROTC classes for all three services take place, is a chance to hastily fill in their answers...
Jason leaned against the seal tank and blew on its surface... Little waves of water rushed away from him, cowering before his breath. For a moment it seemed to Leora that if Jason blew hard enough, he could blow half the tank’s water away, clearing an empty space for himself to step inside, high...
...DIED. AUDREY MESTRE, 28, French diver who sought to break the world free-diving record by descending to a depth of 171 meters on a single breath, attached to a pulley and a 90-kg weight; off the coast of La Romana, Dominican Republic. Mestre reached the target depth but suffered a fatal accident while surfacing, disqualifying the bid. She was posthumously awarded the world record?breaking the previous mark of 162 meters set by her husband, Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras?for a 170-meter test dive made three days earlier...