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...federal judge today cleared the way for what could become a historic, industry-breaking class action lawsuit against American tobacco makers. The suit charges that top tobacco firms knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated itslevels in cigarettesto keep customers hooked. U.S. District Judge Okla Jones certified the suit, filed by a smoker's widow and three current smokers in New Orleans, as a class action, which means that anyone in the country who has failed to quit despite a doctor's warning that smoking is unhealthy may join the suit. Defendants include American Tobacco, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard...
...Volkswagen both plan more than 1,000 job cuts this month, while entertainment giant Televisa has dismissed 1,500 employees, or 6% of its work force, since December. ``Most people prefer to buy food rather than cigarettes,'' says Consuelo Docal de Rojas, who owns a struggling candy and tobacco shop in Mexico City and rents out apartments above the store. ``People can't scrape up cash to cover even necessities.'' At the same time, she adds, ``all my tenants are behind on their rent...
DIED. GEORGE ROBERT STIBITZ, 90, computer pioneer; in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1937, working in his kitchen, Stibitz cobbled together a primitive adding device out of dry-cell batteries, metal strips from a tobacco can, flashlight bulbs and telephone wires. Many consider it the earliest antecedent to the digital computer. Frustrated as a Bell Labs researcher, Stibitz eventually joined the faculty at Dartmouth...
...estimated 300,000 lives are lost each year because of obesity-related conditions, making obesity the second leading cause of death in the U.S. after tobacco smoking. Researchers put the cost of obesity at more than $100 billion annually. This includes $45.8 billion in such direct costs as hospital care and physicians' services; $33 billion in weight-reduction products and services; $18.9 billion in the indirect costs of lost output caused by death and disability; and $4.1 billion in workdays lost to obesity- related illness. Americans must change the way they think about obesity. It is no longer simply...
...England teams, two state schools forty-one miles apart atop the national poll, have brought basketball back from the Wild West and Tobacco Road to its birthplace. Nothing could be finer for a fan born and raised in Connecticut and living in Massachusetts...