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...goes to federal excise taxes. Throw in another 58 cents for the cost of the $206 billion settlement with 46 states - a suit, the irony of which should not escape anyone, launched to recoup "lost" healthcare costs due to smoking - and you're down $1.35 and on your eighth coffin nail before you even start paying the boys down in Raleigh-Durham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Uncle Sam May Secretly Want You to Smoke | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

Luna died smiling. The bottle-nosed dolphin was captured last December off the southwest coast of Baja California. For two hours, she traveled in a coffin-like trailer with virtually no water. When she arrived at her destination, an aquarium at La Concha Beach Resort in La Paz, Mexico, she was carried in a makeshift hammock and deposited on a sandy beach. She tried to bite her handlers, but her protest went unheeded. She was forced to frolic and swim with tourists in a pen. After five weeks, she died--from stomach inflammation and ulcers caused by stress, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Pet Or Not To Pet? | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Suspense develops over the convoluted ways in which triple or quadruple crosses emerge. When he isn't offering taped phone conversations or top-secret memos, the author employs prose totally devoid of subordinate clauses. Here is the reclusive Hughes, dismissively labeled after his odd habits: "Drac stuck to his coffin. Mormons tended him. Drac sucked blood. Drac ate Demerol. Drac shot codeine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History as Gutter Journalism | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...that Yalies know that Skull and Bones requires initiates to retrieve a femur bone and lie in a coffin and that their other option is to watch movies with porn stars, I'm guessing there's going to be a different tone to leadership this century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chicken Was Delicious | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...taking, barely noticed by anyone else on the shore. When the ship had passed, Waddle slumped, his head bowed, and turned back toward his house, his eyes teary. "That was the hardest thing I have done in my life," he said. "It was like the last nail in the coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Passage | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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