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Everyone around you has quit smoking. Everywhere you look, companies are advertising new and improved ways to kick the habit. Restaurants, cafes and now even bars are non-smoking. All this leads to one conclusion: Fewer Americans are smoking than ever before...
...world's population but more than a fifth of the poker machines, these "pokies" you see everywhere. The Melbourne Cup horse race day is an undeclared national holiday, and the Aussies bet on cards, numbers, events and animals like nobody's business. They did nothing to hide their gambling habit during the Games, which was fine with me. To the great pleasure of my ink-stained-wretch brethren and the chagrin if not horror of the International Olympic Committee, the Sydney organizing committee's welcoming press party was - get this! - an afternoon at Rosehill Racecourse. "Watch, bet and enjoy Australia...
Actually, the nudie wars began two years ago. "There were indications that three other adult-oriented businesses wanted to come in," says supervisor Ed Gieselman, who confesses that he frequented the Climax before its drive-through days, a habit he has curbed since taking office. "At the public hearings, I'd say 95% of the people wanted some kind of action...
...President Clinton's curtain call on the international stage, it has been the U.N. debut for Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who appears to have reveled in the attention. Like an emerging rock star not yet comfortable with his celebrity, Putin has the disarming - in more ways than one - habit of signing autographs for just about anyone who asks. So when he finished a late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally forced to retreat into...
...Friday. "It's a better picture." Memo to the Bush campaign: The idea that the value of "real people" is to make a "better picture" is not the sort of thing your candidate ought to be publicly sharing. Not surprisingly, Bush has also said he'll probably curb his habit of chatting with reporters traveling on his plane, saying these conversations did little to show the voting public his ability to communicate with "real people." To be sure, the Bush campaign can be forgiven for recognizing that chatting to the hacks has done very little to help the governor...