Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really understand why there's a policy in the yard that students have to stand 100 meters from any dorm to smoke. As long as they don't leave cigarette butts around. I think it's okay. --Elizabeth A. P. Allen '00, Holworthy...
Breathe the air for a day in Sarawak right now, and according to health experts, you will be inhaling the equivalent of 80 cigarettes. It is no surprise, then, that an estimated 32,000 people in Southeast Asia are suffering from smoke-related illnesses, as the whole region chokes under the weight of the smog caused by hundreds of Indonesian forest fires. The fires created a dense blanket of smoke over Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. There is a state of emergency in several major cities. Schools and hospitals have been closed. In places such...
However, Gina Petrocelli '99, who lives in Currier House, said she is happy she doesn't have to deal with smoke wafting through her room...
...ventilation is not like the other houses," Bossert said. "Our biggest problem is with smoke from burning wet logs in the fireplaces...
What happens next depends on whom you ask. To hear NASA tell it, the fallout from such a disaster would be primarily emotional. Scores of scientists and technicians would watch bitterly as years of work went up in smoke and the chance to learn valuable information about a distant, mysterious world evaporated. Congress would wring its hands over wasting $3 billion of the taxpayers' money. And NASA's reputation would get another black mark...