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...land and affects adjacent land. The pool owner is exempt only if he can blame a third party or an act of God. Under "nuisance law." which amply covers swimming pools, the neighbors may also sue or enjoin the poolster from all sorts of annoyances-glaring lights, noisy swimmers, noxious chlorine, and bug-breeding stagnant water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torts: Come Up & Sue Me | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Surprisingly, tobacco stems yield less tar and noxious gases than the leaves. So, said Wynder and Hoffmann, there is less risk in smoking cigarettes if finely shredded stems are left in the tobacco, or if they are made from compressed sheets of homogenized tobacco dust and stems. Finally, finer cuts of the tobacco leaf itself make a less hazardous cigarette than the coarse cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoking: It Is Less Hazardous | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...most noxious of our walls is the one we have built around Cuba. It is a paper wall, erected in the offices of the State Department, and its sole functions to keep Americans out of Cuba. Americans who travel to that island without a specially validated passport face, on their return, fines of up to five thousand dollars, jail terms of up to five years, or both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Paper Wall | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...baldheaded, spade-bearded little Lothario killed ten women is not shown, but his method of disposing of their remains is made clear: in the kitchen is a long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is Killing Women Bad? | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...Everything proceeded according to plan until Central Kitchens began surreptitiously dumping their entire stock of tainted tea at various places around the campus during the March rains. One of those places was the Yard, where the poisoned nuts lay buried. The noxious bacteria in the tea found the toxic substance in the acorns a perfect nutriment. The odoriferous gas you have inquired about is a little-known by-product of their metabolism, encountered only when the bacterial colonies are able to grow without restraint. I'll wager there won't be much green in the Yard for Commencement Exercises this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silent Spring | 3/11/1963 | See Source »

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