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...process, misleading both adults and youth about the dangers of smoking. A recently published study revealed, for example, that lung cancer was recognized as related to smoking by only 40 percent of both smokers and nonsmokers in China. This sort of documentation is pervasive, from Sri Lanka to Poland to Fiji...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...Communism's collapse] was a result of the revolution of conscience that [the Pope] excited in Europe," Weigel said, referring in part to John Paul II's historic visit to Poland...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pope Biographer Promotes Book | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...richest and most commercially productive marine environments on earth, teeming with pollack and halibut, fur seals and Steller's sea lions, horn puffins and murres. The seals and seabirds depend on catching fish, and so do humans. More than 2,000 boats from the U.S., Russia, Japan, Norway, China, Poland and the Koreas haul in an annual catch worth roughly $1 billion. The portion taken off the shores of Alaska alone amounts to one-half the sea life caught by commercial fishing vessels in U.S. waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ill Tide Up North | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...collection had been moved from its home in the Berlin Sing-Akademie museum to a remote location in the German province of Silesia for safekeeping during World War II. But after the war, Silesia became part of Poland, and scholars lost track of the collection...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Scholars Find Lost Bach Work | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...call to the Vatican. The Serbian Orthodox Church last month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join in taking a crack at Milosevic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tearing Down Milosevic | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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