Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Antismoking forces hope that new restrictions can counter some disturbing trends. After falling for decades, the percentage of Americans who smoke has leveled off at 25%, and the proportion of young people who pick up the habit is starting to rise again. An estimated 3,000 U.S. children begin smoking each day. Says Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, who hopes Congress and the FDA will join forces to reduce tobacco use: "No one wants to make people hooked on cigarettes suffer. We just want to make sure they are not followed by future generations...
Harvard students are used to planning ahead. When it comes to rooming groups, they may need to kick a good habit...
...editorial, "Give the Senior Gift (the Boot)." What Mr. Rose is missing is the purpose of the Senior Gift. It is to educate our classmates about the financial apparatus of Harvard. If the purpose, as Mr. Rose suggests, was simply to get our classmates into the habit of giving, we could use the phone...
Although Melissa A. Rosato '97 was surprised to see so much drinking when she got to Harvard, she has never found the need to drink to have a good time. "I figure I'm better off if I don't get into the habit," she said...
...kick the prohibition habit? Is it high-minded puritanism that holds us back, or political cowardice? Or maybe it's time to admit that we cling to prohibition for the same reason we cling to so many other self- destructive habits: because we like the way they make us feel. Prohibition, for example, tends to make its advocates feel powerfully righteous, and militant righteousness has effects not unlike some demon mix of liquor and amphetamines: the eyes bulge, the veins distend, the voice begins to bray...