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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...
...Council authorized Healy to modify the property’s current rent in order to avoid leaving the building empty during the search for a new permanent lessee. Few Cambridge residents were aware of the kiosk’s impending close—not even Kallal Varua, the general manager of Out of Town News. Varua said in an interview that while the newsstand had many problems, he believed Hudson News was going to renew its lease. The increased online availability of foreign newspapers, combined with rising magazine prices and recent construction blocking access to the kiosk, have decreased demand...
...think the role is determined by the life that is going on around us at any moment. And the way one writer responds to this is always different from the way another writer responds. So it’s rather risky to lay down the law for writers in general. I wouldn’t dream of doing that because it is arrogant, to begin with, but, not only that, it doesn’t work. It shows a kind of unawareness which a writer should not be encouraging.FM: You have been called the “father of modern...
...have changed their routes to avoid the Gulf of Aden, with the global economic downturn threatening to drive down demand for their services, they appear willing to risk the occasional ransom payment in order to stay in business. Nor are they transferring the cost to customers. Tony Mason, secretary-general of the London-based International Chamber of Shipping, says the pirate attacks have not pushed shipping rates significantly higher...
...active-duty military officers say commando raids on pirate vessels and the ports they use would stymie the buccaneers. "We know where these guys live and where their ships and boats operate from - it'd be a simple mission to take them out," says Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine general who ran U.S. Central Command and remains a frequent visitor to the region. "There was talk of the U.S. military doing some kind of mission - the Navy would love to do it - but there's no stomach for it right now." (See pictures of modern-day pirates...