Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 25, when the Soufriere Hills volcano spewed 150-m.p.h. molten rivers of lava, gas and ash down its flanks onto the villages below. As farmers tended to their carrot and cabbage fields, huge rocks showered on them and the scorching lava raced over the scalded ground. Ash-filled smoke plunged the land into darkness. There was nowhere to run. Nineteen people died, buried under tons of volcanic slag...
...this is how their generation rebels: they dump their parents' avowed political beliefs but pick up their parents' social-sexual mores and run with them. They smoke, drink, take drugs and have sex--earlier than we ever dreamed of doing. According to recent government surveys, 45% of 10th-graders and 31% of eighth-graders say they have taken illicit drugs; 21% of 10th- and 10% of eighth-graders say they have been drunk in the past month. In 1995, 50% of girls ages 15 to 19 said they had had intercourse, compared with 29% in 1970, when our famous sexual...
...prior to his rampage ? the same ingredients used in America's worst terrorist attacks. He then stored them in his barn, which police feared he had booby-trapped. If Carl Drega was thinking of adding to his body-count from beyond the grave, his plans just went up in smoke...
...coal pits of 1879 Pennsylvania, where though the take-home is twenty-four cents a week, all the positions are full-time. Starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris, it's a face of labor so sooty it should screen at Teamsters meetings, not to mention smoke-out seminars...
...ever likely to make, but Bible still scurried to cover his tracks. Cigarettes, he added, are "certainly not pharmacologically addictive," just behaviorally so. Rather like Gummi Bears, one Philip Morris exec has said. Perhaps he should tell that to the 450,000 Americans who die each year from smoking- and secondhand smoke-related diseases. If Gummi Bears kill, it's yet to hit the headlines...