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...hospitals and schools are in effect -- and widely ineffective -- throughout Asia and Europe. On the theory that impressionable youths learn by example, Singapore's military personnel are not permitted to smoke in public, and teachers in the United Arab Emirates are hounded by health officials to quit the habit outright. In India, which has the world's highest incidence of oral cancer (largely due to tobacco chewing and the popularity of smoking beedis, a rolled leaf filled with tobacco), the smoking characters in Hindi films and soap operas are almost always bad guys. Cigarette ads have been banned from television...
...about any incidents of abuse. She did not indicate to me or to two others interviewed, Berj Manoukian and Dimitri Fane, that her article would be anything else but a human interest story. This, however, was not the case. Scrogin quoted us out of context, twisted our words and outright fabricated a relationship between our comments and the allegations made in her story...
Families too have suffered. Unstable relationships can be pushed across the line into outright dysfunction. In some cases the Barrington team observed, one spouse became hypersexual and the other hyposexual, with obviously destabilizing consequences. Adults frequently misdirect their anger toward spouses and children. In one pitiful case, a young mother started abusing her four-year-old daughter, swatting the clutching child with shrieks of "Get away from me!" The woman had lost two other children in a quake in her native Guatemala...
Every single day, gay men and lesbians are told (either outright or by purposeful omission) that there is something wrong with them. On the same day that The New York Times presented, as Yu claimed, a "deceptive objectivity" when it covered the gay-harassment case in Ovett, Mississippi, it also excluded a very mater-of-fact news brief stating that Pope John Paul II recently affirmed homosexuality as "deviant" behavior...
...Africa, where he does all his writing. In a departure from the rituals of a lifetime, he will begin two plays at once -- one a look at the relationship between young and old "that will be an evident metaphor for what is happening in my country," the other an outright collaboration with five high school students...