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...things: at sea, the white whale, Moby Dick, would serve the purpose. Around his home in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Melville had to strain himself to turn a locomotive into a dark metaphysic: "Hark! here comes that old dragon again--that gigantic gad-fly of a Moloch--snort! puff! scream!" "Great improvements of the age!" he wrote contemptuously. "Who wants to travel so fast? My grandfather did not, and he was no fool." Earlier in the 19th century, there were those who thought that traveling faster than 20 m.p.h. would cause insanity...
...some vocal members of the Undergraduate Council to reflect upon the past year, and they'll offer you a litany of accomplishments. They'll rave about the council's greater accountability and improved public image. They'll even puff up with pride and refer to themselves as "The New UC." But don't believe the hype. The council is mired in a cesspool of irrelevance, misguided activism and petty infighting...
That's why Post Cereal, part of the Philip Morris consumer-goods empire, last week slashed the wholesale price of its 22 cereal brands an average of 20%. The price cuts, the most sweeping in decades, are designed to puff up Post's soggy sales. The No. 3 manufacturer had been losing ground to Kellogg and General Mills, the industry leaders in the $7.5 billion cold-cereal business, as well as to store brands. If--and it's a big if--grocers pass along the full savings, the price of a 20-oz. box of Post Premium Raisin Bran would...
...TAKE A PUFF OF TOBACCO, AND A BLAST OF 4,000 CHEMICALS fills your lungs, blood and brain. The smoke delivers a strong hit--about 2 mg in each cigarette--of nicotine, a compound the U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 deemed an addictive drug. But is nicotine alone what hooks people on tobacco? Apparently not. According to a new report, smoking may exert yet another powerfully addictive influence, one that enhances the effect of nicotine in what a leading researcher calls a "diabolical synergism...
...drove from Patrick J. Buchanan's campaign headquarers to a polling site in southeast Manchester yesterday, Conrad D. Zirois took a long puff of his Marlboro cigarette and tuned his car radio to the Rush Limbaugh show...