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Saddam has tried it before. During the Gulf War, Iraqi soldiers set fire to 700 of Kuwait's wells using plastic explosives. Dense smoke caused health and environmental problems, as crude gushing from damaged facilities contaminated underground drinking water. Damage amounted to at least $20 billion, and more than a decade later, some of it still isn't repaired...
That said, we should not become complacent in combating small manifestations of parasitic ignorance like the current business at Texas Tech. The old cliché tells us that where there’s smoke, there’s fire—and where one ignoramus attempts to conflate the tales of his own scripture with the purity of the most fundamental scientific theory of the biological sciences—there’s millions more waiting in the wings...
...women is that heart disease has become simpler to diagnose. Treatment is easier too, with options ranging from diet and exercise to statins and surgery. Prevention is key. Everyone should get his or her blood pressure tested and cholesterol checked at least once a year. Nobody should ever smoke, but now that women know they are especially vulnerable, they owe it to their hearts--and their loved ones--to quit. --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan/New York...
Many Americans watched the explosion of the space shuttle CHALLENGER live on television. Teacher Christa McAuliffe and six others were aboard. The image of the fireball and trails of smoke inspired disbelief...
...Smoking members of the Cambridge City Council were grinning and bearing the new ordinance, although Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said, "I know a lot of people who drink heavy whiskey and are destroying their livers, who want to tell other people not to smoke...