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...there's one thing a smoker needs in order to quit, it's moral support - mostly from friends and family subjected to the short temper and irritability that usually accompany one of mankind's most daunting tests of willpower. In 1977, the American Cancer Society offered smokers even more support, launching the Great American Smokeout on the third Thursday in November. On this day every year, smokers across the country try to do what feels impossible - give up their cigarettes for 24 hours. The idea is that many will quit puffing away altogether. (In this spirit, this year's campaign...
...show whose luck stalled just a few years back. In 2001, 24 years after it was launched, Top Gear ran out of gas. Its restart the following year owes much to Wilman and Clarkson, who quit the show in 1999 after just over a decade fronting it. Over beers in a London pub, the two sketched the show's current format: out went the string of turgid, outside-broadcast pieces to camera. In came a cavernous studio. Fresh faces were added. A mystery racing driver, permanently hidden beneath overalls and a crash helmet and known only as "the Stig," injected...
...staff member makes home visits to seven or eight clients, driving to different neighborhoods to spend about 30 minutes at each home. It's hard work, and in the eight years that Nakamura has worked for the company, 30 employees have left. "People come with a dream but they quit," he says. "It's physically tough and doesn't pay. I have no way of stopping them." The raise in Nakamura's own salary has been less than .5% since he started. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...After college, he worked at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, where he learned about computing technology. He quit after a few years and moved to Dallas in 1982, where he eventually started a consulting and computer company that he sold for $6 million in 1990. After the sale, Cuban moved to Los Angeles and played roles in several small movies. (He later appeared in several episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger...
...ensuing decades, the book became a phenomenon, selling more than 120 million copies in 37 languages. The McWhirters were stringent fact-checkers, often traveling long distances to adjudicate whether potential-record holders met the book's standards. (Ross McWhirter was assassinated in 1975 by the IRA; Norris McWhirter quit editing the book in the mid-1980s). Record holders receive certificates from Guinness, though not all records are selected for inclusion in the book, which receives some 65,000 record claims every year. Rights to the book, which has evolved from an almanac into a glossy, hard-cover item replete with...