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...Mafia relies on hundreds, so the changes in the bill are causing high anxiety. Last week Maria Meshkova, a single mother, was in line outside the Novogorodsky currency exchange in Moscow's Old Arbat Street. There was fear in her voice as she explained she had already changed her meager supply of $100 bills into smaller U.S. notes. Now she was back trying to split her last remaining $50 bill "just in case, you never know." She feared that the new hundred might somehow make her fifty less valuable...
...giving merchants and potential teen smokers a financial disincentive to sell and buy tobacco, the city saves money in the long run. The meager profits made by vendors on tobacco sales are outweighed by the societal costs of teenage smoking. Each year 400,000 people die from tobacco-related illnesses. A study published last fall found that each pack of cigarettes sold costs society 55 cents for additional health care and 14 cents for extra life insurance for smokers. Most smokers begin their habits as teenagers; by eradicating the underage cigarette problem now, the city avoids the unnecessary costs...
...injuries to which Lewis was referring are numerous. One-time starters David Olson, Evan Beachy, Ryan Westendorf and Evan Meager are all at less then 100 percent...
...outfits, the collection seemed meager (Lagerfeld produced 84). Perhaps Galliano is simply a rigorous editor, but the kind of exhilarating riffs that Saint Laurent and Lagerfeld can spin out--six or eight variations on a theme--were missing. Least satisfactory was a foray into blatant color for evening. Harsh chartreuse-green silk spoiled a group of prettily shaped party dresses. Deep orange costumes suggesting India were more effective, but does one go to Paris for a sari...
...been said that the human body was ingeniously designed so that we could neither pat ourselves on the back nor kick ourselves in the ass too easily. Through extensive practice, the Dean Lewis whom students know has gotten very good at patting himself on the back. But even a meager 750 people can deliver a walloping kick to the administration's ass. --David C. Maier...