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...strangers to hot air, which may explain why so many are rushing to condemn a new gadget that enables users to inhale vaporized alcohol. The contraption, known as AWOL (short for Alcohol Without Liquid), looks like an asthma inhaler and reputedly gets booze to the brain faster. Eighteen states have introduced legislation banning the device, and last week Kansas became the second state (after Colorado) to sign its bill into law. "This is the equivalent of putting a funnel at bars, inviting people to get drunker quicker," says Florida state senator Mike Haridopolos, who cosponsored that state's anti-AWOL...
...Eighteen votes. Those were all it took to kill the most important proposal of the Undergraduate Council Reform Commission (UCRC), which would have mandated direct election of reps to each of the UC’s three committees. The UCRC’s proposal is an excellent solution to the UC’s long-standing problem of filling less desirable committees with uninspired, unwilling reps. Its failure ensures that students interested in participating primarily in one committee of the UC will continue to engage in a crapshoot every fall. Supporters of the reform within the council must continue...
...Eighteen prefrosh got in on the clash, not all of them Crimson-bound...
...store of figures charms most people but bothers a few. On the last day of Rose's rookie season, Stan Musial scratched a single to each side of him and retired with 3,630 hits, the highest total in the 88-year history of the National League. Eighteen seasons later, Rose still fretted for those bouncing balls, considering them two hits he might not have had to get to pass Musial...
...though results released last month showed that only 10% had flunked various sections of the exam, one union official said the test had a "devastating effect" on morale. Apparently so. Early retirements in Arkansas have shot up close to 33%. Teachers in other states may soon be following them. Eighteen states now require competency tests, and two weeks ago the N.E.A. voted to support such exams for all new teachers...