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...East Timor: Up in Smoke...
...Visitors may find it hard to work up the same level of excitement over a functioning transport network. But together with a new system of traffic-thinning overpasses, the closure of smoke-belching factories and the forced conversion of thousands of gasoline-powered rickshaws into natural-gas ones, they, like residents, will discover that New Delhi is suddenly able to offer oases of, er, rest and tranquillity...
Still, reformers are finding that it isn't easy for colleges to kick the smoking habit. Throughout the '90s, cigarette marketing was so ubiquitous on campuses that you would have thought Joe Camel had tenure. From 1993 to '99, tobacco use among students increased 28%. Alarmed by the rising rate of student smokers and armed with a Harvard study showing that students living in nonsmoking dorms are less likely to pick up the addiction, college officials turned to antitobacco advocates for help in drafting new policies. The number of state universities with smoke-free dorms has doubled, to 26, over...
This kind of talk doesn't impress Amy Osborne, who last year fled the U.N.H. dorms for a smoke-friendly habitat off campus. "Whatever," she sighs, rolling her eyes and tapping an ash. "The 20-ft. rule I don't really care about. I mean, who's watching, really...
...Karymsky volcano, which, since its 1996 eruption, has been spewing ash into the air every 10 minutes or so, with sinister rumbles. No wonder the native Itelmen people once thought the volcanoes were inhabited by gomuls--ghosts who roasted whales over huge bonfires, sending forth clouds of smoke and rivers of boiling fat. After camping by the Sestryonka River, we hiked through birch forests and fields of wild purple irises to the Valley of Geysers...