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...flagging economy. So why, in the past year, has Harvard laid off more than 200 clerical workers, an arm of the university’s workforce largely composed of women, and drawn up plans to lay off 180 more? These layoffs expose the Working Mother award as so much smoke and mirrors, grist for a propaganda mill determined to distract the Harvard community while working mothers in our midst are fighting just to keep their jobs. Feminists and anyone concerned about the real status of working mothers at this university have a responsibility to stand up and oppose this hypocrisy...
...metrosexual, the Gear Eye shows are it. Most important, where Queer Eye is about growing up - becoming urbane and understated - the Gear Eye shows are about nurturing your inner third-grader. On the likes of Discovery's Monster Garage and TLC's Overhaulin', cars get tricked out into roaring, smoke-spewing beasts that resemble something out of a 6-year...
Toddlers who toss and turn at night are twice as likely to become teens who smoke, drink or do drugs, according to a 10-year study of 257 boys. That does not mean Junior's sleep problems doom him to a life of addiction, but researchers believe that the two conditions may share some neurobiological factors. --By David Bjerklie
...making a stronger commitment to ensuring that available drug treatments get to as many of the 40 million infected around the world as possible. Under his direction, the agency is pushing its first antitobacco treaty--urging nations to levy higher taxes on tobacco and widen smoke-free areas--and working to update the international rules for dealing with disease outbreaks. It's an ambitious agenda for WHO, and its success will ultimately rest on how well Lee can move beyond the talk and put it into action. --By Alice Park
After sound check, the band lounges about the venue in the hours before they take the stage. A few break for the door to enjoy a cigarette. “This smoking ban,” drummer James Butcher proposes, “is forcing people to be more social. No one likes not being able to smoke a fag indoors, but outside the smokers have their own little community.” He pauses. “In New York it was nice, we got to meet all these nice fans outside the club.” The band...