Word: brie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brie Kane was only seven when she tried her first cigarette, really just a stale butt she found in her mother's ashtray. It made her sick, but not sick enough to stay away forever. Five years later, she and a friend began secretly sharing Marlboros in the backyard of Brie's home in Olney, Maryland. Now that she is 18, Brie sometimes goes through a pack of Misty Lights a day. Most of the people she knows--her sister, her parents, many of her school friends--are smokers too. "It's just something to do," she explains. Thrusting...
Much more certain, in fact, is a set of sobering numbers: 3,000 teenagers begin smoking every day, and of those, nearly 1,000 will die prematurely, according to the Surgeon General. Brie Kane's nonchalance aside, 72% of adolescent daily smokers who think they won't still be smoking every day five years from now are wrong. And while the number of adult smokers is steadily declining, teen smoking has increased. Among eighth graders, for example, the percentage of those who have smoked in the past 30 days increased 30% between 1991 and 1994. Findings such as these, combined...
...ended up purchasing the Berkeley guide, which enlightened me as to the whereabouts of excellent Vietnamese dining. I guess that I could have survived France on brie and baguettes. But if I hadn't encountered John N. Tangent '58 that day in Paris, I would still be walking through the Yard clueless as to the half of my classmates spying...
...angry about the absence of an animate school mascot. (Incidentally, that rankles me too.) Or maybe you are having trouble accepting the "penny a minute" policy for overdue reserve materials. Or you may even dislike a capella. You obviously missed the Junior Parents Lunch on Saturday. Baked brie usually makes everyone feel better...
...every once of brie and caviar served at the Castle, he says, there are Rice Krispie Treats and Fruity Pebbles. "The place is full of social retards--among them, "me," he says in response to the idea that the Lampoon is a mini final club...