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...they can curl up instead with reports by more than 300 wanderers, spanning some 2,400 years and covering virtually the entire earth. Reading about exotic places is usually the next best thing to seeing them in person. Sometimes, when the natives are unfriendly or the food inedible, a secondhand experience is more enjoyable than the original...
...younger colleague. An operation seems in order. Whether it succeeds or not, the patient wants to explain to her only child, Bayard, 16, the son of her second marriage, why his parents broke up and why his once aristocratic father, Pinkham Strong, has become the alcoholic custodian of a secondhand-clothes shop in lower Manhattan...
Most Americans apparently agree with Donaldson. In a 1985 Gallup poll, 62% of tobacco users and 85% of abstainers thought smokers should refrain from lighting up when nonsmokers are around. That agreement, say tobacco foes, is the result of well-publicized, though controversial, studies on the dangers of secondhand smoke. Explains John Banzhof of the Washington-based Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): "The burning issue in cigarette smoking now is not the harm you can do to yourself but the harm to others...
...allegations were met with skepticism and anger in Harlem, and last week a Manhattan jury acquitted Jonah of three counts of robbery and assault. Because Van Houten, 25, had been unable to identify Jonah as the other assailant, the prosecution's case depended for the most part on secondhand testimony. A neighbor of the Perrys' stated that Jonah told her he and Edmund had "run into some static" when they attacked a "d.t.," street slang for a + detective. One juror said later that the state's main witnesses "were not believable, not solid...
...reckless rendition of "War Is Hell On the Homefront, Too." Muriel, he realizes, is a fighter. Her pathetic ignorance wages war on the conventional proprieties that have long ossified the rest of the Learys. Macon's decision to give up middle-class respectability for its underside of secondhand thrift shops and carry-out pizza dinners turns out, ironically, to be less of an escape than an adventure in responsibility. He discovers himself feeling an odd protective concern for the sickly seven-year-old Alexander, a stranger...