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...Just grow up as fast as you can," a storekeeper advised Jonathan, and so , he did, throttling the hatred that gave his life meaning. He learned to read from his only possession, a secondhand McGuffey's, and molded himself a crude set of false teeth. At 16, he ran away to Denver and got a job as a railway brakeman. He also made a friend, nicknamed College, whose family in Maine welcomed Jonathan after their son's death. Jonathan traveled the country in a vain search for his father -- someone to give him an anchor and a bloodline. In time...
...ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, AFTER A curious delay, gave nonsmokers more ammunition to target smoking colleagues, relatives and restaurant patrons. It spent two years reviewing an expert panel's findings and finally concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke exacerbates bronchitis, pneumonia and other ailments in children and kills 3,000 adults through lung cancer each year. The report, which had seemingly run afoul of political considerations within the agency, was immediately denounced by the tobacco industry...
...embraces everything from street vendors selling cigarettes and candy in a Dar es Salaam market to the intricate border smuggling of Zambian gemstones. At least 10 million of 26 million Kenyans make a living from small-scale cash-crop farming, carpentry, metalworking, tailoring, illicit brewing and running private transport. Secondhand clothes are imported from Europe and America and sold by the roadside. Packing cases are fashioned into furniture. Oil drums are made into roofing sheets, frying pans, barbecues, stoves, knives and lamps. Cars that cannot be repaired are salvaged piecemeal and turned into donkey carts. Much of this unofficial labor...
...greatest newspaper dynasty in the country, has to work hard at being a regular guy. For Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who succeeded his father as publisher of the New York Times this year, this means taking public transportation, not owning a country house or a car, and touring Europe by secondhand BSA 175 motorcycle. His signature sport is not golf or squash but rock climbing. The new Star Trek is his favorite program. He has taken on cleaning up Times Square and working at homeless shelters rather than organizing charity balls. If the restaurant choice...
...fact that smoking causes lung cancer is so well established that only the tobacco companies still claim to have doubts. Now an Environmental Protection Agency review board, acting on a draft report produced within the agency, says nonsmokers are in danger as well. "Environmental tobacco smoke" -- better known as secondhand smoke -- inhaled by those who associate with smokers leads to about 3,000 cases of lung cancer a year in the U.S. and 300,000 cases of respiratory disease. Conclusion: secondhand smoke should be classified as a major carcinogen, which could lead to even stronger restrictions on smoking in public...