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...Part of the problem may be demographic. Even though the WHO believes smoking currently kills 4 million people a year worldwide - and will kill 10 million a year by 2030 - its impact on developing countries may be different than it is in industrialized countries. "In the industrialized countries, people are living a lot longer today, and if you live into your eighties or nineties, the effects of tobacco become much more pronounced," says Dowell. "But life expectancy in the Third World is considerably lower, and they may therefore not notice the effects of smoking as compared with other factors that...
...pulled a Bradley, telling unions they should trust him because of what he is, not what he will do. He glossed over the knottiest issue facing labor: the way free trade exports American jobs and suppresses American wages. And though free traders have proposals for dealing with the problem, Gore didn't mention them. Apart from a promise to negotiate labor and environmental agreements as part of future trade pacts, not as side deals, he offered platitudes about protecting the right to organize and boosting the minimum wage--no-brainers for any Democrat. In fact, nothing Gore said...
LOSING YOUR NAME In 1997 some 350,000 people called Trans Union, one of the three big credit bureaus, to report identity theft. It's a growing problem, and Travelers now offers its policyholders identity-fraud insurance. For $25 a year, the policy provides up to $15,000 in coverage for lost wages, expenses and legal help needed to clear up credit reports and red tape--something self-employed or hourly workers may consider. To be safe, check your credit report every six months and shred financial data before dumping them. For more safety tips, see www.consumer.gov...
...supervision, the kids have set their own standards for acceptable drinking behavior. A student who says his father is an alcoholic doesn't worry about his own drinking because "I don't drink when others don't drink. If you drink by yourself, that's different." He has no problem finding drinking buddies. Even without a fake ID, it's not hard to get cigarettes or a six-pack. "Everybody has older siblings, and everybody has older friends, so they can go and get it for them," says Detective Dave Dreher...
...life. Right now he's got athletic talent and fame, and everyone wishes him well. But will he build on that, or will he peak as a senior in high school? He has applied to join the Navy, but still hopes for a football scholarship to college. One problem: his GPA is 1.6, and he has only seven months to pull that up to a 2.0 to be eligible for college sports and, more important, to get enough English credits to graduate. Another is that until this year, no one gave him knowledgeable advice on how to go about winning...