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...five-year study by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute finds that early symptoms of lung diseases such as emphysema and bronchitis disappear when smokers kick the habit, no matter how many years they have smoked...
...problem No. 2: How can the Chinese companies make a profit? In many instances, their biggest customer is the state, which doesn't necessarily pay its bills on time. This leads to the disappointments noted by Fidelity's man in Hong Kong, Bill Ebsworth. "They have a habit of disappearing," he says, referring to the earnings...
...make matters worse, frustrated aides report zero progress in persuading Arafat to change his habit of managing by dictate. He still refuses to create an accounting system that would satisfy would-be givers of international aid. As a result, of $550 million in assistance pledged for this year, only $50 million has been received. Arafat is also hampered by bitter divisions among his lieutenants. According to two senior Arafat aides in the territories, Farouk Kaddoumi, the foreign minister of the Palestine Liberation Organization, wrote to donor countries from the group's former headquarters in Tunis stating that since their contributions...
...James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert's brilliant documentary "Hoop Dreams," a lyrical meditation on basketball, ambition and the depravity of inner-city life. Gates is one of the film's truth-tellers. He is aware--if only at moments--of the terrible burden of potential and its cruel habit of leaving behind a trail of unfulfilled dreams and unrealized promise...
...fact that No-Doz may be habit forming is not a problem at all. It's solution...