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...make this judgment. It should forbid smoking by all individuals on Harvard property, for their own sake and for the sake of those around them. If students or employees want to smoke, they can go to public property. If this is too inconvenient, maybe they will break a destructive habit...
...smoking will continue inside the dormitories. (The smoke detectors are easily removed, and the windows still open.) Therefore, to decrease the inconvenience to non-smoking students, as well as to accommodate smokers while searching for new solutions, the University should look into ways to allow smokers to pursue their habit, such as establishing designated rooms for first-year students or abandoning the 100-foot restriction...
...warning to smokers of all ages, Liggett will state on cigarette packs and in ads that smoking is an addictive habit. Liggett will also cooperate in suits against other tobacco companies and will allow its own employees to testify. Moreover, Liggett agreed to pay a quarter of its pretax profits to the states every year for the next 25 years, a promise not as impressive as it sounded. "Twenty-five percent of nothing is nothing," quipped one analyst...
...when about the alleged Chinese attempt to throw some money around. But on the eve of Vice President Al Gore's trip to Beijing, what really had the capital buzzing was whether the emerging picture of China's role represented a new obsession or just confirmed an old habit. Traditionally China has relied on commercial allies, like U.S. multinationals, to promote its interests. What investigators want to know now is whether it also tried to buy up the President's party, and for good measure some members of Congress...
...Millstone scandal began when Galatis blew the whistle on Northeast's 20-year habit of breaking safety rules during routine refueling operations at Millstone 1--moving all of the radioactive fuel rods into the plant's spent-fuel storage pool even though the pool, crowded with thousands of old fuel rods, was licensed to handle the full core only on an emergency basis. To save precious off-line minutes, Northeast would start moving the fuel so quickly after shutdown that the heat melted a worker's protective boots...