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...year pay only one percent in the total amount of income taxes, but 47 percent of the total cigarette taxes. And smoking is least prevalent among those with 16 or more years of education, confirming what intuition suggests - that those most likely to indulge in quick-fix, deadly-in-the-long-term behavior are those whose long-term prospects are least promising...
...These people, mind you, are the same ones who not only keep tobacco farmers farming but keep small convenience stores in business by adding a drink, snack or newspaper to their daily fix. And as the rampant fencing-out of smokers from restaurants, bars, offices and even the front stoops of federal buildings continues apace, smokers are clearly on their way to harming no one but themselves. (Drinkers, especially those who get behind the wheel, are more likely to harm innocents...
...data in digital archives. After six months, the tiny computer in the tag sends an electric current through a magnesium burn wire, which dissolves in the seawater and allows the tag to pop up to the surface. The tag transmits a GPS locator signal, and when satellites get a fix on it, they upload all the archived data of the shark's movements. The distances are likely to be huge. A shark tagged in Australia in a similar experiment this year traveled more than 1,800 miles along the country's coast in three months...
...They’re easy to spot, really: big brown puppy-dog eyes and a slight crease in their bronzed brows. Nothing that an apple-cheeked rising senior with an infectiously loud laugh and a general idea where 51 Brattle St. is can’t fix. I figure if one of them doesn’t ask for the “special after-hours tour” soon, I'll just have to remain content with the voices in my head...
...actually happen. The report, they charge, is riddled with errors to frighten people into Bush's privatization plan. "It recycles old alarmist arguments that portray the financial shape of Social Security in the worst possible light," says William D. Novelli, executive director of the AARP. Social Security will need fixing, but it is far from being on the brink of financial collapse, argue critics of the commission. The panel's report tries "to convince younger Americans" that Social Security is "falling apart and that a radical solution is needed to fix it," says Congressman Robert Matsui, the senior Democrat...