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...idea of quitting collectively came 12 years after the landmark U.S. Surgeon General's report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer, low birth weight and coronary disease. Lynn Smith, a newspaper editor in Monticello, Minn., and a former smoker, wrote editorials in the 1970s urging others to quit. Smith, who once told the New York Times he started smoking "as a teenager by picking up butts from the street during the Depression," organized a local event called "D-Day," or "Don't Smoke Day," in 1976. The next year, the California chapter of the American Cancer Society sponsored a similar...
...countries by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Far from China eclipsing Japan, as many once thought, the Middle Kingdom's emergence has actually reawakened international admiration of its neighbor. "There's a strong perception that China's not doing enough for people's rights," says Yasushi Watanabe, co-editor of a new book called Soft Power Superpowers. "Japan is more naturally accepted as a member of the international community...
...ended up being oversubscribed, with some eager students forced to stand through the lectures. Another telling barometer is the number of Japanese specialist personnel working for the United Nations, which has increased to nearly 700 today from less than 500 seven years ago. "Among the Japanese public," says co-editor Watanabe, "there's a sense that since we were helped by other countries to rebuild 60 years ago, it's a noble thing for us to do the same...
...Joffe is editor of Die Zeit, and a fellow of the Institute for International Studies and of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
...after relatively short hiatuses in the real world. Assistant Professor of Government Eric M. Nelson ’99 abandoned his decision to attend law school. “I became increasingly fascinated with what I was doing,” says Nelson, who is also a former Crimson editor. After graduating from the College, he journeyed to the U.K. on a Marshall Scholarship, finally returning to Cambridge in 2003 for the Society of Fellows post-doctorate program. He became an assistant professor in fall 2005.The History department hired Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit ’01 as a lecturer...