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...president, is to drop bombs—sort of the national equivalent of a sigh of relief. But, while the president ponders the question of “Who Would Jesus Bomb?” there are some hints that it’s time to kick our fear habit. For instance, New Yorkers are, by and large, not scared. For some reason the people of New York seem a lot more confident and a lot less fearful about terrorism than people from Bush’s red states. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas was afraid to simply...
...public. French Smokers Say Non W hen the money is right, many French smokers would rather quit than fight. That was the logic behind last week's hike in French cigarette prices - the third in a series of increases over the past year that have made the deadly habit 30-50% more expensive for France's 20 million smokers. The tax boost - elevating a pack of Marlboros to 35 - brings French cigarette prices to the third-highest in Europe (behind the U.K. and Norway ), and increases revenues to treat tobacco-related diseases that cause 66,000 deaths in France annually...
...misery." Rumsfeld laughs at this report when he hears it a few days later. "I was doing my thing," he says of that day in Kirkuk. "It's what I do all day, every day." Rumsfeld doesn't have a name for his habit of withering cross-examination, but he does have an analogy. "My theory in skiing is, if you're not falling, you're not trying, and that's worth remembering. I teach that to my grandchildren." The former Navy instructor pilot tries a different metaphor: "You've got to work the edge of the envelope...
...rehabilitation camps that are blossoming all over Yunnan. A drug user picked up by the police is often forced to serve a mandatory three-month sentence in a rehabilitation camp, where calisthenics, lectures and daily treatment with a Chinese version of methadone are supposed to curb the addict's habit. Up to 20% of the inmates, by the guards' rough estimates, are HIV positive; because they are registered by the police, they can be tracked after they leave the camps. Eventually Ho wants to find and monitor 500 HIV-negative patients in the Mangxi area who are at high risk...
Instant Messaging is an addictive habit that must be broken if the true purpose of this college is to be achieved. The real education that you get from Harvard does not come from the aloof professors or $100 course packs, but rather from the weird and interesting conversations that you can have with weird and interesting people. When you look back on your college years, you’re not going to remember the time you sent you’re friend a funny link to a gay porn site. You’re going to remember that three-hour...