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...California, or in most public places in Illinois. The most draconian measures have come in France, where it seemed cafés once had two smoking sections: one for smokers, one for heavy smokers. With a ban now in place, Paris authorities are handing out 10,000 "pocket ashtrays" to keep the streets from looking like gerbil cages...
...REAL WINNERS Democratic media consultants, who pocket a percentage of each ad buy. And the makers of TiVo, which lets viewers skip commercials...
...booming economy has allowed short skirts to co-exist with grandmotherly disapproval. "When I was 20, I had to save pocket money for several months to buy a pair of Levis," says Harjot Singh, a 28-year-old assistant manager with a call centre. "Today, many of my colleagues are 20-somethings... They have their own money, and the girls don't need permission from their parents to buy jeans, or for that matter, short skirts...
...would happen if he didn't obey. "They would kidnap all of us, put drills into the eyes of me and my son, but only after we had witnessed my wife and daughter being raped," he says. "Then they would kill all of us." The leader reached into his pocket and pulled out a small glass bottle. In it was a pair of round, bloodstained objects Adnan recognized at once: "Human eyeballs...
...paying with his own credit card and then running into McDonald's. "$7.15? For a yogurt parfait and a small cheeseburger?" Brownback asks the cashier, who explains that the college kid got a Big Mac. "Oh," he says, and drags a $20 bill and a quarter from his pocket...