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When we see smoking in this context--as a rite of passage for so many, as an indelible part of our culture, and as an act still in many ways symbolic--it makes no sense to expect to eliminate it by legislating it out of existence. While outlawing cigarettes in our workplaces and restaurants may make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just...
Although a 3-day conference on "Issues--'94" may not be your typical rite-of-passage, it nonetheless reminded me I have indeed grown older since high school. I wasn't afraid to sleep through a lecture and I didn't come back with any souvenirs this time...
...Harvard debutantes profiled are any indication, coming-out parties are just like any other family event where your relatives want to take your picture. In their families, it was just another rite of passage that involved food, drink and relatives with popping flash bulbs, sort of like a bar mitzvah, only without the religious significance...
...UPSHOT IS THAT WHILE JAILS and prisons still incapacitate, incarcerate and punish, they no longer -- if they ever did -- deter crime. Indeed, in many inner-city neighborhoods, young men regard prison time as more a rite of passage than a deterrent. "Their father's been in prison, their brother's been in prison," says Lieut. Robert Losack, 30, who has served as a Texas prison guard for nine years. "It's socially acceptable; it's part of growing up." Once back on the street, these youths enjoy an enhanced status. They also pose a greater threat. "Prison culture becomes...
...squeeze on big nights. It remains the best place both to see jazz with a young, eclectic crowd and also socialize: you won't get any stuffy stares here if you try to talk to some friends. Perhaps more than any other club, Wally's should be a required rite of passage for every college student in the area...