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...system. A news-by-the-numbers approach, it starts with a news alert headline, followed by a short present-tense story, and finally padded with additional details and alternate formatting for different news platforms (the web, radio, TV, etc.). The AP also launched a mobile news service available on hand-held devices in May and increased its online interactive content to appeal to today's Facebook generation...
...predict how well a smoker will respond to two different types of quitting programs - nicotine replacement or bupropion (Zyban). Nicotine-replacement methods, including the patch, pill and gum, work by weaning the smoker off nicotine gradually, usually over a period of weeks or months. Bupropion, on the other hand, is an antidepressant, which does not contain nicotine; instead, it works to curb nicotine cravings by interfering with the reward circuit in the brain, where addictions - to nicotine and other drugs, or behaviors - are reinforced. Nationally, about 70% to 80% of smokers say they want to quit, but any single attempt...
...since clips of longtime Trinity pastor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s sermons appeared on YouTube, the church has weathered unprecedented scrutiny. There have been bomb threats. Reporters have brazenly called ailing Trinity members at hospices. So it's understandable that many members shooed away reporters - often by raising a hand, as if to say, "Don't even go there." In one incident Sunday, an 18-year-old in baggy black jeans, a white tee-shirt and a black bag strapped across his chest told a group of reporters gathered outside the church, on 95th Street, "It's a family there...
...very difficult to continue our membership there as long as I was running for President. The recent episode with Father Pfleger," he continued, "just reinforced the view that we don't want to have to answer for everything that's stated in a church. On the other hand, we also don't want a church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes...
...have found a more kindred spirit in Moss. He is 37, educated at Morehouse and Yale. His delivery is silky smooth, not nearly as bluntly political as the 66-year-old Wright's. But it is no less of a performance: He often pops the microphone between his hands during a sermon, so as to free the other hand to chop the air to emphasize words...