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Although some people may attempt to quit because of higher prices, the reality of their nicotine addiction means that most smokers will not even try to quit. Smokers pay the higher price for cigarettes and legislators know it. State and federal governments depend on this willingness to feed a destructive habit. Legislators need the tax revenue to fund government programs—programs that they would otherwise have to cut—or risk losing the support of their constituents. Politicians have become as dependent on cigarettes as the people who smoke them...
...Even if Arafat is prepared to call for a cease-fire, however, he may lack the means, now, to enforce one. "Operation Defensive Shield" has systematically targeted Palestinian Authority security structures, and left them badly degraded. And it is on those very structures that a cease-fire agreement would depend for policing Palestinian militants. Not surprisingly, the White House has been working to diminish expectations of Powell's trip achieving a truce...
...hopefully, all of this will leave an impression on me too. Last Wednesday, as our group entertained mentally and physically handicapped children in an Alabama gymnasium, I played with an autistic 12-year-old named Ben. The whole week I realized I could depend on my title to entertain, but Ben was not going to care about that at all. He liked me, though—we played catch and he fell asleep...
...Club--which regulates the $34 billion Thoroughbred industry--forbids artificial insemination, Thoroughbreds are made the old-fashioned way. It's a micromanaged, ritualized affair, from the guy (or gal) who lifts up the mare's tail to the fellow who guides the machinery into place. Millions of dollars often depend on the orderly exchange of a few cc of body fluid...
...West Bank and Gaza. So, the situation is likely to escalate quickly now back to the crisis levels that prompted President Bush to send his envoy in the first place. And that's bad news for a U.S. administration whose foreign policy objectives in the Middle East depend, at least in part, on calming the Israeli-Palestinian situation...