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...later, equally addictive track, appropriately entitled “Nicotine,” inspires the feeling of blissful laziness. Leading with a quiet snare drum-roll followed by Sciubba’s languid lyrics that drift through the song like smoke, the song has the effect of an ocean shore or an open field...
...secured a 54-acre site next to Adelson in Cotai to build four hotels--three of them full casino resorts. "I think it is more important to focus on people's work than it is their talk, including mine--but especially his," says Wynn. "And when the smoke clears and all the flap-jaw, and all of the rhetoric and dust settles we'll see what we'll see." More than likely, we'll see Wynn and Adelson making another killing...
...Unlike most museums there are no cordoned-off areas - visitors are encouraged to roam freely. Hidden tape recordings of a chiming grandfather clock, a muffled conversation in another room and the clip-clop of horses' hooves on the street evoke the historic atmosphere, as do the smells of pipe smoke and candied fruits...
...Less clear are the signals sent by the College. The treatment of drug violations on campus varies from waving away the issue like so much pot smoke to public prosecutions and suspensions. This erratic enforcement of drug laws makes the College’s policy maddeningly unclear and unfairly singles out unlucky individuals for massively disproportionate punishment...
Hazy Parisian bistros will be pass if a proposal by a French parliamentary panel to ban smoking in enclosed public areas becomes law. Really. France would join other once smoke-filled nations like Ireland and Britain that now forbid cigarettes indoors. France's Health Ministry says 66,000 people die each year from smoking--5,000 from secondhand smoke--but 20% of the population still lights up. The ban will probably be carried out by decree so that legislators won't have to take a public position on it. But they'll be in the anti-smoking vanguard anyway...