Word: smokeless
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...London as an "ugly, vandalized city." But every true Londoner thinks his city "more fair," with a "mighty heart," as did the poet Wordsworth when he crossed Westminster Bridge one morning in the 19th century. Seeing "ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples, all bright and glittering in the smokeless air," he thought it "a sight touching in its majesty." Londoners are so friendly, with a great sense of humor. They didn't get that way by living in an ugly and vandalized city. London has always been fascinating, colorful, worldly, broad-minded and throbbing with life. DEE WHITE Georgetown...
...press on farther east into the faded glory of Hollywood, which started everyone smoking in the first place. The Frolic Room, where the walls have emphysema, is smokeless. Traci Michaelz, a drummer with the Peppermint Creeps, goes outside to smoke and says, "This is all about control, dude." You notice that his green fingernail polish matches neither his feather boa nor his skirt, and you know things change only for the worse...
...manufacturer, the point of sale or theft, and provide other useful information. They were invented by a Minnesota chemist in 1973 and for the past 11 years their mandatory use in Switzerland has helped Swiss police solve more than 500 explosives cases. But adding taggants to black and smokeless gunpowder in the U.S.--the materials common in many unsophisticated bombs--is still prohibited...
...claim the Swiss experience disproves. But the N.R.A.'s political power is legendary. To support its view, since 1980 the N.R.A. has used a single test by Congress's former Office of Technology Assessment, which found that taggants could cause "increased reactivity" with at least one form of smokeless powder. But the powder tested then contained an earlier generation of taggants in a concentration far greater than that necessary for tracing purposes. The solution to this impasse is more study, a compromise that passed the House last Friday. But even if the Senate eventually goes along, the research will delay...
Still small and somewhat timid, the campus temperance movement has 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...