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Most smokers begin when they are 12 or 13 and still in the throes of pre-adolescent "fitting in" complexes. To a young smoker, a cigarette holds the mystique of a taboo, adult act. That first secret drag behind the school with friends is so rich (all the sweeter in memory) because it is so daring. The smoke rises up in tiny white clouds, and you all smile conspiratorially at one another. You've taken the folks for another ride and done what you shouldn't have. And, at the same time, you've secretly stolen a tiny...
...Delhi police found 850 lbs. of tiger bone (equivalent to 42 tigers) and eight pelts. Sansar Chand, a dealer who surrendered last December, has nearly two dozen wildlife cases pending against him. Given the ease with which traffickers can manipulate India's glacial judicial system -- where cases can drag on for decades -- arrest is often only an inconvenience...
...first time. We stayed with my mother's parents. It was June, but we had left school early in order to get to the island in time for my aunt's wedding. As a result my cousins were still in school, and without my parents there to drag us around to see all of our friends and relatives there wasn't much...
Weighed down, literally, by the forces of technology, they push, pull, carry and drag heavy burdens from a warehouse on the Allston side of the Charles River, down JFK street, across the Anderson Bridge, to Harvard Yard, the River Houses and the Quad. The fortunate hire taxicabs--or manage to catch one of the shuttle buses that park nearby and happen along sporadically--alleviating their task somewhat. The rest trudge along, like packmules, resigned to their sorry fate...
...vice-presidential searches to replace two top University administrators continue to drag on with no apparent end in sight...