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Most explosively, the series suggested CIA complicity in, or at least knowledge of, the operation. Hyped by provocative headlines (the series was titled "Dark Alliance") and splashed over the Internet (accompanied by a logo that superimposed the CIA's insignia on the image of a crack smoker), the story was perfect fodder for persistent suspicions in the African-American community of a government conspiracy against blacks. The outrage percolated on talk radio and on the Internet until Jesse Jackson and other black leaders began demanding a full accounting. The CIA conducted an internal review; congressional hearings were convened...
...accessories and top-of-the-line grills that really make you earn that "World's Greatest Chef" apron. Viking, for example, offers high-end gas grills up to 65 in. wide (in case you're entertaining the U.S. Army), fully equipped with side burners, wok ring and built-in smoker system, for a cool $4,500. Another nifty piece of equipment (for less than $400) is a smoker called the Big Green Egg. This ceramic oval, based on the traditional Japanese cooker called a kamado, uses no water yet keeps food moist and can smoke a turkey in just...
Your article about the causes of addiction was a blessing [MEDICINE, May 5]. I'm a recovering alcoholic and an ex-smoker, and it took me a long time to accept addiction as a physical disease, not a character flaw, and to realize it must be dealt with in the same clinical manner as high blood pressure or cancer. I hope that one of your readers who is so afflicted will finally look at himself or herself and say, "I'm a good person. I'm just sick, and I need help." If so, you will have done more than...
...book are matched by a measured lyricism as ripe and succulent as a fresh papaya. A dead woman's throat is "an estuary of color and disorder"; a father and daughter camp under "the quickening wounds of a million stars." A refrigerator coughs "like a four-pack-a-day smoker," and nothing seems impossible, not even a man killed by a hurricane-blown avocado. Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss...
JACKSONVILLE, Florida: Tobacco stocks soared minutes after a Florida jury found R.J. Reynolds not responsible for the death of lifelong smoker Jean Connor. Just thirty minutes after the verdict was announced, giants Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco had gained a whopping ten percent in value. Nervous investors had shunned tobacco stocks until the decision was announced: RJR Nabisco was trading as low as $28.37 1/2 before finishing the day up $3.12 1/2 at $32.62 1/2, while Philip Morris bottomed out at $37.87 1/2 and then went up $4.25 at $44.12 1/2. Investors hope that the decision will strengthen the industry...