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Such intervention is uncommon in the low-resource nations that are home to the most smokers. In 1992, for example, China reached a smoking rate of 10 cigarettes per person per day - the peak level in the U.S. in the 1950s. Forty years later, Americans paid the price of all that lighting up, with a record 33% of all middle-aged deaths caused by cigarettes. If smoking in China continues to climb in coming years - and without public health programs to discourage it, it likely will - an even higher proportion of its population will succumb to cancer after...
...Because the two serious tickets are running on similar issues, the defining factor will likely be which candidate can craft—and sell—the better campaign narrative, says Sundquist. He adds that the Flores-McLeod ticket may have trouble engaging voters on a personal level...
...never get to find out why or how they made the decision they made. That’s the most scary part for people going through the process.”James and Wong are also targeting issues on a community-wide—and even global—level.“We are trying to affect not just what happens in the Harvard bubble but also Cambridge, Boston, and the world,” James says.In so doing, the pair hopes to foster in students a sense of social consciousness and community involvement.“Our student...
...sometimes, in some places, I question the level of competition that is out there...
Last spring, Hartmann attended a high-level Pentagon meeting where he made the case that detainee medical and intelligence records should be available to the military court, according to several people who attended the session. When objections were raised that Hartman's recommendations would undermine medical treatment at Guantánamo by turning the camp's doctors into agents of law enforcement and the prosecution, Hartmann engaged in what was described as a loud and prolonged argument...