Word: smokes
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...Statistics are never as visceral as firsthand experience. It’s one thing to know that 300 million Chinese adults are either tobacco smokers or are exposed to cigarette smoke on a daily basis, with 40 percent of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke. It’s another thing to walk inside any Internet café—which is the only affordable way to access the Internet for most Chinese—and choke from all the tobacco constantly being devoured by computer game addicts. Urban environments were so inundated with smoke that I could smell tobacco...
...like a bunch of kids living in a house, doing whatever they want, not waking up at a normal time, not going into an office, hiring people by, like, bringing them into your house and letting them chill with you for a while and party with you and smoke with you.” The deal also represents a victory for Microsoft, founded in 1975 by Harvard dropout Bill Gates, over rival firms Google and Yahoo, which also sought to work closely with Facebook. As part of the arrangement, Microsoft won the position of “exclusive third-party...
...past five years have offered only a glimpse into the pervasiveness of steroid usage—the proverbial smoke to what may really be a raging fire. It began with the Bay Area Lab Co-operative back in 2003, and has been slowly accelerating ever since. Given the ugliness surrounding our dear Barry “Balco” Bonds’ taking of the title of all-time homerun champ it would be an understatement to say that people don’t like this whole steroid business much. But there’s no avoiding it: With guys...
...This week the people of Southern California may have reached that edge. "We're in a state of shock right now," says Dr. Zab Mosenifar, director of the Cedars-Sinai Women's Guild Pulmonary Disease Institute in Los Angeles, who was preparing for an influx of smoke-inhalation victims at his hospital. "This is beyond thinking." Beginning overnight on Oct. 20, unusually fierce Santa Ana winds stoked fires that quickly burst into life throughout a dry, hot landscape. By midweek, more than 20 separate blazes formed pockets of fire running from the Mexican border north to Simi Valley outside...
...Often the flames moved faster than the residents. When Jay Blankenbeckler went to bed the night of Oct. 21 at his home in Rancho Bernardo, he could see smoke, but the fire still seemed far away. Upon awakening early the next morning and turning on the TV, he saw a newscaster reporting in front of a blaze - one that was less than half a mile from Blankenbeckler's house. "It had already burned through an entire neighborhood," he says. "That's when I thought, 'This is real...