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...country, star players abandoned the college game one, two, or three years early. Some skipped it entirely. Teams violated NCAA rules, programs were suspended. Players took cars, jewelry, did drugs, shaved points. Yet there was always Dean Smith, from every November through every March, coaching the North Carolina Tar Heels, for 36 seasons icon and steward of an impeccable program...
...television screen hanging above cold salmon, squid and octopus, the North Carolina Tar-Heels were driving on the Virginia Cavaliers in one of the day's college football matchups...
...fair, there are some big differences between the stop-sign case and the tobacco settlement. Smokers know they're risking their life and their health; it says so on the cigarette pack, right near "tasteful/low tar" or some similarly enticing inscription. In contrast, the three teens killed at the intersection didn't have a clue about the missing sign. No one has ever declared a willingness to "walk a mile" to go through an unmarked intersection or congratulated herself for having "come a long way" when she got to one. But to continue in the vein of fairness...
Unless this empowerment--to control not only the nicotine content of cigarettes, already approved by a federal court, but their tar, carbon monoxide, carcinogenic flavorings and other additives as well--is a basic part of the deal and not conditioned on the FDA's having to meet evidentiary standards of the industry's devising, the whole settlement package is a toothless wonder and should be tabled. Even granted essential regulatory muscle, the FDA needs both the resolve to carry forward its regimen and the funding to do it properly; perhaps revenues from a higher federal cigarette tax should be earmarked...
...years tracking down slim leads like the one attributed to a former cafe owner in Taos, N.M., who told interlocutors that an old customer, a desert rat named Cactus Jack, once told her he was "out there when the spaceship came down" and saw dead aliens with blood "like tar." But despite the best efforts of Kevin Randle and others, no one has yet been able even to confirm Jack's existence, let alone his veracity. Hunting spacemen can be as daunting as finding the lady who dried her poodle in the microwave...