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Declaring that "history is on the side of the non-smoker," Surgeon General Everett Koop yesterday told an audience of about 60 at the Kennedy School of Government that smoking may disappear in the United States...
Schelling said that if the trend of the past 20 years is any indication, smoking may disappear in the United States in 50 years. He cited the notable decline during the past two decades in the number of people who begin smoking, as well as an increase in the number of people who have quit...
...would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight of a fishing boat. The discerning mammals are apparently able to tell the difference between fishing vessels and other craft, because they still approach small sailboats or motor cruisers. Still, marine biologists complain that it is increasingly difficult to study dolphins and take population counts...
Lynch, whose position Fisher will be filling, said that he had been planning to leave the Business School and "disappear into the woods of New Hampshire" to start a small business...
Boston is an old town, its narrow streets not neat grids like Kansas City's. The streets wind, end in cul-de-sacs, curve back on themselves, disappear, intersect by the sixes and sevens at rotaries. Their direction is fluid and changing. An outsider, carefully learning that Charles Street is one way this way, returns a year later to find it that way. Overhead traffic signs are terse, grudging and lacking in true meaning. Street signs are usually placed only on cross streets, leaving unnamed the street upon which one is driving...