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...That was proved again a few years ago, when the company introduced the nearly nicotine-free Next. The public wasn't interested. The industry claims smokers turn away from such cigarettes because they lack "taste" or "flavor." But researchers maintain that these cigarettes taste no different; they lack the kick nicotine provides. A 1992 study found that people who puffed Next cigarettes didn't show the brain-wave changes that smokers ordinarily exhibit...
...bright, brisk spring afternoon last week, Bill Clinton threw out the first ball at the Cleveland Indians' opening-day game. But his pitch, high and over the plate, was more than the usual springtime rite. The President helped kick off the baseball season in Jacobs Field, a sleek, brand-new, $169 million stadium, a large chunk of which was financed by a 4.5 cents-a-pack local tax on cigarettes. Yet no one, no matter where they are sitting, is permitted to smoke in the open-air stands...
Harvard officials scrambled yesterday to project an image of stability in their central administration amid reports of disarray that could hurt the $2 billion fundraiser University officials plan to kick off next month...
Still, France never had to worry about organizing the largest capital campaign in the history of higher education, which Harvard will officially kick...
...March 14, Apple Computer unveiled the Power Macintosh series of personal computers, the first fruit of its 1991 alliance with IBM and Motorola. At Apple's recent Seybold Seminars exhibition in Boston I got a chance to kick the machines' tires and take a test drive to see the new "power" for myself...