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...Thus a walk down three city blocks can become a ten-minute expedition that involves 92 steps down and 88 steps up, and leaves one feeling fit enough to enter the 10,000-meter run. Yet always there is an accommodating yin to balance the rigorous yang: Seoul's user-friendly subway is a miracle of swift efficiency...
...early 1980s that cocaine use by pregnant women could cause serious physical and mental impairment to their newborns, it was another warning that the snowy white drug was not as harmless as some believed. Doctors found that cocaine, like heroin and alcohol, could be passed from the user-mother to the fetus with disastrous results. Since then the epidemic of cocaine-afflicted babies has only become worse. The main reason: growing numbers of women are using crack, the cheap and readily available purified form of cocaine that plagues America's inner cities and has spread into middle-class suburbs. Says...
Puffers around the U.S. were intrigued last year when the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company disclosed that it had developed a virtually smokeless cigarette. Now cigarette users can decide whether the product is like the real thing. Last week Reynolds said that beginning Oct. 1 it will test-market its new brand, Premier, in St. Louis, Phoenix and Tucson. The user lights Premier like a regular cigarette, but a carbon element at its tip warms the enclosed tobacco and flavorings rather than burns them...
There is no sign in the 558 pages of Picasso: Creator and Destroyer that Huffington has given a day's close thought to Picasso's art -- or anyone else's. To her, Picasso is mainly interesting as a celebrity with an odious character: a user, all but incapable of real affection, destructive to his friends, brutal to his women, cruelly indifferent to his children. Some of this is, of course, true, and it has not been a secret for years. The Big P.'s personal life was no oil painting, and Huffington documents it with zeal, leaving...
...even more striking feature of the Olympus is its "auto zooming portrait mode." The user simply selects the proper setting on the camera's control panel, points and clicks. The lens will zoom in or out to ensure that the subject's head and shoulders are well framed in the viewfinder. "If you want to take portraits of people at a party," says David Willard, a senior vice president at Olympus, "the camera will automatically zoom to give you same- size shots of everyone...