Word: young
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...smokers, one day a year isn't so bad to have to confront the truth: cigarettes kill. "Probably the group with the least amount of people wanting to stop smoking are the teenage and young adult smokers, and that is disturbing for all of us," says Jim R. Giebfried, director of cessation programs in Massachusetts for the American Cancer Society and the Smoker's Quit Line (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP). "Very often college students are in a location where they may be affected by other smokers, like at parties," said Giebfried, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public...
Adults who knew him then said they saw a very driven, intense young man, at times confused about the direction he wanted his life to take...
Gore was easy to talk to and very approachable. "I always liked him very much," Rosenblatt recalls, describing him as staid and a bit stiff--qualities that Gore is often criticized for today. "It was interesting that those same qualities which one admires without taint or adulteration as a young man are sometimes questioned as an older...
...awkwardness that has set in has come from somebody who doesn't trust being boring...When he was a young man, he never had to dress up who he was," he says...
Having trailed in just one game all season--f or a span of about 30 minutes--Harvard's undefeated freshmen found themselves in a fight for their lives, trailing by a goal in the most important game of their young careers...