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...analysis of data collected during 17 clinical trials of nicotine patches revealed that 22% of smokers who used the patch had not resumed smoking six months later -- more than double the success rate of 9% for smokers who tried to quit while using placebo patches...
...violence that may erupt when love runs awry. Women who have clung to destructive relationships for years are realizing, like Dana, that they may be in dire jeopardy. Last week phone calls to domestic-violence hot lines surged to record numbers; many battered women suddenly found the strength to quit their homes and seek sanctuary in shelters. Although it has been two years since the American Medical Association reported that as many as 1 in 3 women will be assaulted by a domestic partner in her lifetime -- 4 million in any given year -- it has taken the murder of Nicole...
...among the unit's 500 conscripts who enter the war in the bloody Central Highlands -- and one of only nine survivors by the time the unit becomes the first to march into Saigon in 1975. After he was demobilized in 1976, Ninh tried university for a while and then quit to live as Kien does, "like a wanderer, jobless" for years. Says Ninh: "My war experience always haunted me and asked me to write it down. I can't remember the day I started, sometime...
...conservatism may have been imbibed together with his mother's milk, but Wasinger came into his own at Harvard. At public school in Kansas, he was quit and kept a low profile, and in two years at Deerfield Academy he concentrated on academics and getting into Harvard...
...both games we got down and just didn't have what it took to come back," Gahan says. "The Bucknell game was particularly frustrating because we were ahead at first and then, after they went up 5-4 in the third period, we just seemed to quit...