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...That's where I remember her. In the decade of the '80s Austin was a grand place to be if you were a journalist or a politician. Texas politics was raucous and raw. There was booze, smoke-filled rooms (including Molly's office) and an abundance of colorful characters, some wearing diamonds in their cowboy boots, others brawling on the state senate floor. And there were newspaper wars going on and money being spent on investigative journalism and grand photo essays. For a decade, Molly wrote for the Dallas Times Herald, until it was swallowed up by the Dallas Morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Molly Ivins, 1944-2007 | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

Eight years after a multi-billion-dollar master settlement between tobacco companies and 46 states on the health problems linked to smoking, cigarettes now have more nicotine—the substance that makes them addictive. Tobacco companies have raised nicotine levels in cigarettes by 11 percent—about 1.6 percent per year—between 1998 and 2005, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) confirmed on Thursday. The findings were first reported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and later turned over to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health for independent analysis...

Author: By Cyrus M. Mossavar-rahmani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cigarettes Now Have More Nicotine | 1/21/2007 | See Source »

...days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jan. 29, 2007 | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...hard-boiled as they come, a barely subordinate loner with a disdain for the pins of the Leaders that every North Korean is expected to wear and a woodworking hobby that threatens to earn him an "antisocial" note in his file. ("Why the hell can't you just smoke, like everyone else?" the Chief Inspector complains.) But O gets results, and when the body of a Western diplomat is discovered in a room at Pyongyang's biggest hotel-the stiff in the book's title-he is quickly called back to the capital to investigate, only to find his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pyongyang Confidential | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

Blanchett: She couldn't stand too near a naked flame, otherwise her entire wardrobe would go up in smoke [all crack up]. Those pants were quite extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Great Performances: Class Is In Session | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

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