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...habit of smoking is disgusting to sight, repulsive to smell, dangerous to the brain, noxious to the lung, spreading its fumes around the smoker as foul as those that come from Hell." -King James I, 1604, a few years after Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco to England...
...MASKS Filter out stale air and noxious gases--built up during centuries of decay--inside the tomb...
...Department of Defense’s Inspector General that “80.8 percent of the females who said they have been victims of sexual assault did not report the incident” reminds us that the massive underreporting of this issue is still a very real and noxious problem...
...Baghdad itself offered opinions on the perpetrators. It was Baathists; or members of Fedayeen Saddam; or the U.N.'s own security guards; or remnants of Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group supposedly routed in the war; or al-Qaeda; or foreign jihadists who have flocked to Iraq; or a noxious combination of all the above. Treat every such opinion as if it carried a health warning. The plain truth is that nobody knows who is responsible for atrocities like the Baghdad bomb. Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, the U.S.'s top soldier in Iraq, has often said the thing he lacks...
...most optimistic scenario, Bush would be going into the election season this fall with solid victories in Afghanistan and Iraq - as well as the scalps of some of America's most noxious enemies - under his belt. Europeans and other naysayers would have been chastened by the discovery in Iraq of huge stocks of anthrax and nuclear weapons-in-the-making, and would quickly learn to be more like Tony Blair. Bush would also be pointing to a democratic Afghanistan emerging from the ashes of Taliban misrule, and the first rays of Iraqi freedom beaming into the dark corners of Arab...