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...witty defense of smoking, he gave it up. Cigarettes, he says, "present benefits, universally acknowledged by society. These benefits are connected with the release and consolation that cigarettes provide, with the the mechanism they offer for regulating anxiety and for mediating social interaction. They serve as well to spur concentration" - all smoking writers know this - "and, consequently, to permit the efficient production of many different kinds of work...
...These documents are potentially important to our democracy and the integrity of our voting system,” he said. “It’s necessary to spur debate...
...hoping that it will spur the University to take action [against the statute] because they will see that it is a winnable issue,” said Amy R. Lawler, a second-year HLS student who is political co-chair of Lambda...
...reach the tomb's roof, the raiders begin digging a 40-ft. spur tunnel at 98 ft. below...
...Hence the dongle. Microsoft and Vodafone hope the device will spur people to buy things online that cost pennies or a few dollars. These "micropayments" are often too small for credit-card companies to handle efficiently, yet they seem to hold the key to reaching consumers who want to buy a single song or game. Microsoft senior vice president Pieter Knook claims that the emergence of a micropayment infrastructure will unleash a torrent of software - development activity that will deliver as yet unimagined programs to the market. This, he says, will transform the mobile-phone industry into one that...