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...forcing the manufacturers to reduce the toxic potency of their product could significantly reduce the horrific toll it now exacts. Under the proposed settlement, the FDA is reportedly to be granted the power to modify cigarettes in this fashion over time--without the industry's fighting it tooth and claw or the need for congressional blessing of each new round of mandated yield reductions. Of vital importance as well, the FDA would be similarly empowered to require far more conspicuous and dire health warnings on every cigarette pack and full disclosure of its harmful ingredients...
...this show mounted in his honor, he might find it a trifle modest: two rooms filled with books, watercolors, excerpts from his extensive writings, a few of the natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy to admire for his achievements...
Visit them he did, say police. Trail, whom Cunanan had known in California, was found on April 29 rolled in a rug in Madson's Minneapolis apartment, a bloody claw hammer nearby. Madson, a promising architect who had lectured at Harvard, turned up four days later on a lakeshore 50 miles away, several 40-cal. bullets in his head and back. On Trail's answering machine, the police found a message from Cunanan inviting Trail to Madson's apartment. In the apartment, not far from the hammer, police discovered a nylon gym bag containing the kind of distinctive...
...within steps of each dorm's doorway, a nearly endless supply of ideological foes and drinking buddies. The sheer fact of geography, however, will severely limit the breadth of Apley residents' exposure to 3 a.m. political debates and spontaneous snow football games. And neither the high ceilings nor the claw-footed bathtubs of Apley Court will change this fact...
However, the Bears tried to claw back into the game, and indeed made some headway, as they netted a goal midway through the third period. A lazy pass and a pinching defender in their own zone lead to a Brown two-on-one breakaway...