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...David H. Smith, director of the Poynter Center of the Study of Ethics at Indiana University, said in an interview last night that it is not unheard-of for a corporation like Dow to sponsor research which is intimately linked to its products. Smith cited the tobacco industry's funding of research on smoking...
...bomber is thought to reside, and the device, like earlier ones, was an intricately built pipe bomb inside a handmade wooden box -- they have not as yet determined what links his various targets. And although a task force of 25 agents from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Postal Service is working around the clock on the case in San Francisco, investigators seem to have made little progress in catching their methodical madman. Says James Fox, a former chief of the New York FBI office who worked on a Unabom case...
...taken its cue from antismoking campaigns. Restrictions on public smoking gained momentum after nonsmokers learned about the dangers of secondhand smoke. Once those in the smokeless majority realized that their own health and quality of life were directly affected, they stood up and demanded their right to a tobacco-free airspace. In the same way, more and more students who drink little or no alcohol have focused on the fact that other people's drunkenness isn't just unpleasant. It often leads to physical and sexual assaults and even death, especially when wasted students climb behind the wheel...
...clues to identify the so called "unabomber" and are relying completely on help from the public, a source tells TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson. Since the mailbomb killing Sunday of a Madison Ave. executive in North Caldwell, N.J., investigators from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and the Postal Service have received about 500 calls with tips on the bomber, an ATF source told Jackson. "It takes time tracking them down, but they are still appealing to the public to call in with tips," says Jackson. "They have no clues." Two they have...
Negotiations between the owners and the Tobacco Control Program have completed their first stage, according to Anderson, and in January both sides will begin "going back to [their] constituencies" to formulate more detailed proposals