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Still, reformers are finding that it isn't easy for colleges to kick the smoking habit. Throughout the '90s, cigarette marketing was so ubiquitous on campuses that you would have thought Joe Camel had tenure. From 1993 to '99, tobacco use among students increased 28%. Alarmed by the rising rate of student smokers and armed with a Harvard study showing that students living in nonsmoking dorms are less likely to pick up the addiction, college officials turned to antitobacco advocates for help in drafting new policies. The number of state universities with smoke-free dorms has doubled, to 26, over...
...assaults would kick off a new war. America's $2 billion radar-eluding B-2 bombers could attack Iraq from bases in the U.S., England or Diego Garcia, and Navy warships already in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean could pummel key Iraqi targets with long-range cruise missiles. Once Iraq's air defenses are crushed, more vulnerable F-14s and F-18s from three or four Navy carriers by then in the region could begin striking additional targets. The speed of the air war would depend in part on which neighboring countries--Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Saudi Arabia...
...school will kick off the four-year public phase of a massive fundraising campaign in June—an effort that Clark said a single dean should see through...
...asked him why he made the documentary. He replied that he had said no four times but that the filmmakers misunderstood him the last time. When I pushed the question of why he would let the filmmakers follow him around, letting them use everything except one would-be kick-ass breakfast scene in which he chokes on yogurt, he said, "It's not an imperative, it's an experience. Experience cannot be avoided...
...junior punter Adam Kingston. After muffing the snap on a first-quarter punt attempt, Kingston picked up the ball, rolled to his right to evade Yale’s pressure and got off a ground-ball kick from the Harvard 30 that bounced all the way to the Yale...