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Researchers have known that secondhand smoke can be just as dangerous for nonsmokers as smoking is for smokers, but now there's fresh evidence quantifying just how hazardous the after burn from cigarettes can be, and how quickly it affects your body. Scientists at the Oregon Department of Health documented for the first time an hourly buildup of a cancer-causing compound from cigarette smoke in the blood and urine of nonsmokers working in bars and restaurants in the state...
...many of those too young to have been on the scene, it was these sounds of the 1970s that defined their image of Berlin. "Lou Reed's 'Berlin' record definitely added to the romantic notion I had of the city," says Anthony, a 36-year-old musician from Portland, Oregon, who moved to Berlin four years...
...back-breaking financial burden of providing health insurance for its employees. Health care adds $1,500 to the price of every new American car, for instance. "I've had auto executives say to me, ?We're health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden has put an elegant and entirely radical health-care plan on the table. According to an independent assessment by the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health-care consulting firm, it would save $1.48 trillion over the next 10 years...
...people running these institutions are people who either went through or know about what happened in the sixties,” says G. Garrett Epps ’72, now a University of Oregon law professor who in 1969 was a freshman helping to relay camera film from University Hall to reporters at The Crimson...
...said. “And in terms of what is important to people who are graduating—Darfur is important, climate change is important...Iraq is important, and he gets that.” The son of two college professors, Kristof came to Harvard from rural Yamhill, Oregon. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1981, he attended Oxford to study law on a Rhodes scholarship. His first Pulitzer, which he won jointly with his wife, came in 1990 for coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. According to Yiting Shen, a member of the KSG Class...