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...taxed cigarettes since the Civil War, although its levies often lag behind those assessed by other nations. This month's increase--signed by a President who's trying to kick the habit himself--comes as recession-battered states are considering charges on everything from pornography to marijuana as a way to pad their budgets. Tobacco taxation enjoys broad public support, but other recent efforts to impose sin taxes have sputtered. Proof, perhaps, that in trying times, doing bad can feel really good...
Returning home refreshed and ready to kick its season into high gear after a week long training trip in Maryland, the Harvard sailing team competed in three regattas over the weekend, its most action in a single weekend to date in its young spring season. Both the co-ed and women’s squads responded well from the additional practice over Spring Break, as the co-ed squad placed first in the Boston Dinghy Club Cup at home on the Charles and the women’s team finished a respectable runner-up in the Duplin Trophy Women?...
...sold her car and now relies on public transportation. Another has taken on freelance work for the weekends, even though she hasn't lost her job. In the interest of disclosure, we are all "of a certain age," and it is natural for a particular sort of gravity to kick in at about the 30-year mark. (A friend recently noted that turning 31 is like being in the ocean and no longer seeing the shore. Ah, to be young!) But this, I'm pretty sure, is different. This feels like more than run-of-the-mill buckling down...
...That got us acclimated to the gore that we see. Fulton County also has a decomp room where they store bodies that have been decomposing for any length of time. So we went to that room and got to smell the stench of death. That was like the initial kick in the butt. Then after that, we had a month of classroom training. We would do mock search-and-recoveries out in the woods, looking for fallen soldiers Stateside before we were deployed. (See "A TIME Photographer's Iraq Diary...
...these technology upgrades are necessary, says Rickey Smith of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, because "the Taliban have evolved and the more robust they get, the more counterinsurgency and elements of national power are needed to kick into the effort." The urgency felt by the Pentagon is reflected by Gen. Richard Cody, formerly the Army's vice chief of staff, as he talked about fielding ODIN throughout Afghanistan: "We are building as many as we can as fast...