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...Brie Kane was only seven when she tried her first cigarette, really just a stale butt she found in her mother's ashtray. It made her sick, but not sick enough to stay away forever. Five years later, she and a friend began secretly sharing Marlboros in the backyard of Brie's home in Olney, Maryland. Now that she is 18, Brie sometimes goes through a pack of Misty Lights a day. Most of the people she knows--her sister, her parents, many of her school friends--are smokers too. "It's just something to do," she explains. Thrusting...
Much more certain, in fact, is a set of sobering numbers: 3,000 teenagers begin smoking every day, and of those, nearly 1,000 will die prematurely, according to the Surgeon General. Brie Kane's nonchalance aside, 72% of adolescent daily smokers who think they won't still be smoking every day five years from now are wrong. And while the number of adult smokers is steadily declining, teen smoking has increased. Among eighth graders, for example, the percentage of those who have smoked in the past 30 days increased 30% between 1991 and 1994. Findings such as these, combined...
...make individuals and entrepreneurs irrelevant because no one is going to be able to compete with these behemoths." Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, ranking Democrat on the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, puts it this way: "For us to allow there to be this concentration of media ownership would make Citizen Kane look like an underachiever...
...were interviewed. So far, 42 have been dismissed for various reasons. A separate hearing todetermine her competenceto stand trial has not yet reached a conclusion. Her lawyers say Smith is suicidal, and that her depression may lead her to make self-incriminating statements during the trial. TIME's Joe Kane reports that while the Smith case has attracted national attention,infanticide is not uncommon.He says FBI figures show that 10,656 children under the age of five were killed between 1976 and 1992. Parents were responsible for the murders in 63 percent of the cases...
...protection money from construction companies, small businesses and shop owners to finance terrorist activities. Police also accuse the I.R.A. and the U.D.A. of running drugs while making a show of beating up drug dealers. "These rackets are great money spinners for the I.R.A. and the U.D.A.," says Chief Inspector Kane. "They can't give them up now, when money from the community is drying...