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...smoking rate among Americans has fallen steadily since the 1964 Surgeon General's report, from 42% that year to 19.8% of adults in 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smokeout organizers claim some responsibility, saying the campaign "set the stage for the cultural revolution in tobacco control that has occurred over this period." For younger generations of Americans, it's hard to imagine that as recently as the 1980s, smoking was allowed on commercial airplanes and in hospitals. The Smokeout has helped, to be sure, but so too have restrictions on tobacco advertising, local bans...
...Yahoo! was welcome news to investors still seething that the founder turned down an acquisition offer from Microsoft earlier this year worth some $46 billion. (After Yang demanded $4 more per share than Microsoft's offer, the software giant walked away.) Yahoo! is in trouble - its stock price has fallen to around $11 from $29 in February 2008 and it's way behind Google and others in the fast-moving Internet innovation game. (The stock rallied slightly upon news of Yang's departure.) Yang, who took the job as CEO in June 2007, 13 years after he founded the company...
...meantime key priorities are going forward. “It’s not as if the sky has fallen. I don’t know of any department that has actually had to cancel a [faculty] search that was already under way,” he said...
Between job stress, irreconcilable schedules and general inertia, my live-in boyfriend and I had fallen into a serious sex rut - we weren't having any. So when he suggested last Halloween that we spend the weekend in New Orleans - or, as I like to put it, getting sleazy in the Big Easy - I jumped at the chance...
...economic success has become an integral part of national identity, the IMF bailout was seen as an embarrassment. Today's financial chaos seems like a return to those tumultuous days. South Korea has been among the Asian countries hardest hit by the global meltdown; its currency, the won, has fallen to levels not seen since the days of the last crisis. Even though South Korea's economy, relative to others around the world, is expected to show some vibrancy - economists expect the country to avoid a recession, while the banking sector remains generally healthy - the renewed onset of economic turmoil...