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...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 Céline Charveriat, head of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. "If this offer goes ahead, trade-distorting domestic subsidies will remain almost completely unchanged...
Anyone who wants to see the health benefits of municipal smoke-free ordinances need look no further than Pueblo, Colo. After much political back-and-forth, the city banned smoking in restaurants, offices and other indoor spaces in the summer of 2003 and started seeing results within months. In the year and a half before the ban, the city recorded 399 heart attacks; in the 18 months after the change, there were 108 fewer heart attacks. That 27% decrease alone, according to a study presented last week at the annual American Heart Association meeting, resulted in a savings...
...statistical analysis was complicated, however, and required help from researchers at the Colorado Prevention Center and the University of Colorado. Investigators chose for comparison two areas that don't have smoke-free laws: the part of Pueblo county outside the city and an adjacent county. Although the number of heart attacks fell in both of those areas, the drop was small and not statistically significant...
...side and his more philosophical, humanist side. Within his own politics RZA expresses a more libertarian streak, particularly in regard to marijuana, which he definitely thinks should be legalized. “Give a street peddler a peddler’s license and make it so you can only smoke in certain areas, ‘cause I mean if you’re smoking on the streets you can get run over by a car or something,†he says. “I’m not pretending it won?...
...evidence that these recordings were made in hole-in-the-wall clubs with lousy sound systems.  Some will say that this “dirty†production is an integral part of the Oldham experience: it accurately represents the experience of watching a show in tiny, smoke-filled, honk-tonk. But when musicianship of this caliber is on display, clarity is preferable to authenticity. Authenticity isn’t something Oldham has to worry about any longer. “Summer†proves that his sound can hold up in the proving ground of country music...