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...smoker, I understand how pleasant it would be to simply walk into a bar and demand that it cater to my particular smoke-free preferences, but what gives me the right to impose my personal choices on others? In a liberal democratic society, tolerance of harmless actions is a virtue that enables the peaceful functioning of society—“each person should enjoy maximum liberty, consistent with the like liberty of others.” J.S. Mill’s tolerance, rather than teetotalers, ought to be the model...
...Want to feel the inside of a stomach? View a smoker's lung? The National Museum of Health and Medicine, tel: (1-202) 782 2200; www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum, enables tourists to see and feel the effects of disease on the human body, and documents the shifting course of the history of medicine, says Jeffrey Reznick, senior curator. Founded in 1862, the institution is at its ninth location, on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The setting is appropriate, since the museum traces changes in the practice of medicine during various wars. Its collection of artifacts includes the bullet that...
...Mission: Impossible fantasies by selecting an undercover persona - complete with false name, age and other traits - upon entering the museum. Before they exit, an interactive display tests them on how well they remember the details of their new identity. Want to feel the inside of a stomach? View a smoker's lung? The National Museum of Health and Medicine, tel: (1-202) 782 2200; www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum, enables tourists to see and feel the effects of disease on the human body, and documents the shifting course of the history of medicine, says Jeffrey Reznick, senior curator. Founded in 1862, the institution...
...Roxbury, Mass. was then arrested for trespassing. Oct. 29: 2:53 a.m.—Officers were sent to Holmes Hall in the Quad in response to a report that someone had been smoking in the bathroom. Police found the bathroom empty and were unable to locate the alleged smoker. 10:20 a.m.—An officer reported to the Law School’s Story Hall because of a report concerning an open window and bullets strewn on the floor. The officer determined that the bullets were fakes and had been left from a party held the night...
...hands with Arafat on the White House lawn, Rabin said, ''Of all the hands in the world, it was not the hand I wanted or even dreamed of touching.'' Perhaps only a man so lacking in charm can be immune to it in others. A Scotch drinker and chain smoker, Rabin has never had a nickname, and there is no such thing as a Rabin joke, either about him or by him. Emotion and warmth seem foreign to him. Once on a visit to the White House in 1977, Rabin was asked by President Carter if he would like...