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...SMOKING It's no secret that smoking is bad for you, but secondhand smoke is proving more dangerous than anyone suspected. Two studies showed that women who don't smoke but live or work with people who do have a 27% increased risk of breast cancer and are as much as twice as likely to develop cervical tumors. Another study showed that children raised by smokers have as much as three times greater risk of developing lung cancer when they grow up. A fourth study found that the grandchildren of women who smoked while pregnant are more than twice...
...good news is that eliminating secondhand smoke really makes a difference. In 2003, Pueblo, Colo., banned smoking in restaurants, offices and other indoor spaces. In the 18 months following the ban, the number of heart attacks among Pueblo residents fell...
DIED. ALFRED ANDERSON, 109, last surviving participant in the famous Christmas Truce of 1914, during which British and German soldiers emerged from opposing trenches along the Western Front near Ypres, Belgium, to exchange gifts, sing carols and smoke; in Newtyle, Scotland. The unofficial World War I truce spread to much of the Western Front, lasting for days in some areas. Last year he said of the reprieve, "I remember the eerie sound of silence...
...from the Chicago Tribune and LIFE Magazine who had the sources in the FBI and elsewhere and kept breaking stories. But Hugh was the one who kept pushing the story with the editors in New York, fighting for space, telling them that there was fire to go with the smoke. He helped stiffen their backbones when the Nixon White House was trying to scare other publications off the case, and encouraged Sandy to keep digging. As bureau chief his role may not have been as visible as others', but it was an important factor in TIME's overall performance during...
...agreement, it may not be the breakthrough Africa is waiting for, say critics. Europe wants to exclude some products from its tariff cuts, and the U.S. proposal would effectively ease subsidies 2% by renaming existing supports or disguising them as other payments. "It's a case of smoke and mirrors," says C?line Charveriat, head of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. "If this offer goes ahead, trade-distorting domestic subsidies will remain almost completely unchanged...