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...fourth year, the American Cancer Society claims, as many as 16.5 million people participated in the Smokeout, with a million dropping the habit for good. The campaign was directed in particular at young people; antismoking activists said it was harder to keep teenagers from picking up the habit than to get older people to drop it. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 1980 21% of high school students were habitual puffers. Over the years, the Cancer Society has enlisted celebrities and health officials to promote the Smokeout campaign - everyone from Dallas star and ex-smoker Larry Hagman...
...excess of Christmas past. "The American consumer is trading downward in the most dramatic fashion ever seen," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail-consulting firm. What's more, the thrift mind-set has seeped into all income levels. Saks Fifth Avenue, for instance, had a 16.6% drop in sales in October. "Saving is cool right now," says Candace Corlett, president of WSL. "Conspicuous consumption is out, and people have lost their passion to buy." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...charismatic leader of Japan's number three automaker, sat down with TIME to discuss the auto industry's current crisis, how to make electric cars a reality, and what we'll drive 10 years from now. Though better off than its American counterparts, Nissan recently reported a 39% drop in second-quarter profit, has seen its stock price plummet, and plans to halt production of nearly 300,000 vehicles through March of next year...
Harvard’s Class of 2012 was supposed to wait.Freshmen don’t come into their first game, playing on the road, and drop 17 points on the home team.Freshmen don’t bury dagger threes to end any threat of a comeback.Freshmen don’t pound on the blocks like they were a baby Barkley.Fortunately for the Crimson, this is not your normal group of rookies.Message to the Ivy League: Tommy Amaker’s highly touted recruiting class is for real.With three freshmen starting—guards Max Kenyi and Oliver McNally and power...
...underneath, "He ain't heavy, Father, he's m' brother." During the Great Depression, parents would scrape together bus fare and hang a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town" around their child's neck. Tysheema Brown, the Atlanta woman who drove 1,000 miles to Omaha to drop off her 12-year-old son, had been taken to Boys Town herself as a teenager. She had tried to get a spot for him in a similar Georgia institution for six months and failed. During that long drive she reportedly told her son what was happening; she reasoned later...