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While banning smoking from the Yard wouldn't cause any undue injustice, it would improve the quality of my life immensely. For example, I would not walk to class every morning over a carpet of the detritus smokers leave behind in the evident assumption that the Cigarette Butt Fairy is...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Get Your Butts Out of the Yard | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

One good way to assess the great figures of medicine is by how completely they make us forget what we owe them. By that measure, Dr. Jonas E. Salk ranks very high. Partly because of the vaccine he introduced in the mid-1950s, it's hard now to recall the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOOD DOCTOR: JONAS SALK (1914-1995) | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

Many of the injuries were "soft tissue" cuts from flying glass. "When you see what it does, you can't believe it," said Nurse Moser. "It's as though you filled a shotgun shell with slivers of glass and shot it at someone." One man was pierced in 100 places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: CITY THE BLOOD OF INNOCENTS | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

The last dozen years of Stevenson's life saw him wandering with amazing optimism, usually accompanied by his mother, Fanny and her children, and a long-suffering maid whom Fanny abused. The quest was for a climate his bleeding lungs and Fanny's vapors could tolerate. He tried Davos in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FABULOUS INVALID | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

Students engage in a variety of hands-on projects, from constructing thermometers out of shoelaces and cardboard to making lungs out of straws to show the effects of smoking, says Morazes.

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: ExperiMentors Teach Kids Science | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

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