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...acknowledge the danger of the immigration racket. As Edward Murphy, the director of a refugee support charity in Liverpool explained, "There are four reasons people don't want to mess with these gangs: your limbs." One survivor of the cockle picker tragedy, Lin Guo, gave evidence from behind a screen in the courtroom as his family in China, who live in the same village as Lin Liang Ren's relatives, had already been threatened and his father beaten. Perhaps Little Lin, on the coast of China, dreaming of a restaurant in Cambridge, is right after all; there are ways...
...American screen has long been a smoky place, at least since 1942's Now, Voyager, in which Bette Davis and Paul Henreid showed how to make and seal a romantic deal over a pair of cigarettes that were smoldering as much as the stars. Today cigarettes are more common onscreen than at any other time since midcentury: 75% of all Hollywood films--including 36% of those rated G or PG--show tobacco use, according to a 2006 survey by the University of California, San Francisco...
Audiences, especially kids, are taking notice. Two recent studies, published in Lancet and Pediatrics, have found that among children as young as 10, those exposed to the most screen smoking are up to 2.7 times as likely as others to pick up the habit. Worse, it's the ones from nonsmoking homes who are hit the hardest, perhaps because they are spared the dirty ashtrays and musty drapes that make real-world smoking a lot less appealing than the sanitized cinematic version...
...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)--the folks behind the designated-driver campaign--are pushing to get the smokes off the screen. "Some movies show kids up to 14 incidents of smoking per hour," says Barry Bloom, HSPH's dean. "We're in the business of preventing disease, and cigarettes are the No. 1 preventable cause...
Three young Palestinian photographers exhibited photos of their home in a Palestinian refugee camp last night, in an attempt to raise awareness of the living conditions resulting from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The teenagers and their stories, attested to by the moving photographs that flashed on the screen behind them during a presentation at the Center for Goverment and International Studies (CGIS), were part of a six-city U.S. tour organized by Picture Balata, a West Bank-based group dedicated to teaching the youth of the Balata refugee camp about photography. The exhibit, which will remain on the ground floor...