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...serial killer (as fictional as John Cree) is stalking the Limehouse district of London's East End: two prostitutes, an elderly Jewish scholar and the entire family of a secondhand clothes dealer have been found murdered and grotesquely mutilated. The carnage, screamingly reported in the tabloid press, inspires fear among the citizens and perhaps something else: "It was almost as if they had been waiting impatiently for these murders to happen -- as if the new conditions of the metropolis required some vivid identification, some flagrant confirmation of its status as the largest and darkest city of the world...
...lifted last week by the state's supreme court, allowing Governor Parris Glendening to issue the order that prohibits smoking in all indoor workplaces, except in designated rooms with direct ventilation to the outdoors, beginning March 27. "Maryland has the fourth-highest cancer death rate," said Governor Glendening. "Secondhand smoke will kill 1,000 Marylanders this year." California, Vermont and Utah are the only other states with equally comprehensive bans...
Rush Limbaugh is as good for us as the secondhand smoke bellowing from his big mouth...
...Artists Reflect on the Holocaust delivers what its title promises, but not necessarily what the visitor expects. All thirty-one artists involved were born after World War II. Although there are some direct responses to the Holocaust itself, many of the works displayed are responses to response, depictions of secondhand guilt. Several of the artists are groping in the dark, trying to understand stories which were never spoken, and history which was never quite revealed to them. In their art, they try to grasp the meaning of elusion. Why should it be so difficult to recall the Holocaust...
...study documents the damaging effects of secondhand booze...