Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stub it out, already! SMOKERS who continue to puff away after having balloon angioplasty double their odds of a heart attack or early death...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: "From now on, in every store in America, our children will be told: No ID, no sale," President Clinton said in announcing new Food and Drug Administration regulations aimed at raising the age when teens take their first puff. FDA studies say 82 percent of adults who have smoked started before the age of 18; three-quarters of minors buying cigarettes report they are never carded. To reduce those numbers, the new regulations state that retailers must check the ID of anyone under 27. Anyone caught selling cigarettes or chewing tobacco to someone under 18 will be fined...
...sing-down, where each team is given a word and has to come up with songs that feature it. Winblad remembers Gates disappearing on a dark beach after his group had been given the word sea, and then slowly emerging from the mist singing a high-pitched solo of Puff, the Magic Dragon...
Once a badge of hipness, marijuana today welcomes everyone at New Trier--jocks and literati, nerds and debutantes. "These days it's everywhere," says Dottie, 17. "Cheerleaders puff. Sixth-graders puff." The very ordinariness of drug use leads some to conclude that it is without risk. But there are plenty of kids on the Corner at New Trier who started out as recreational users and now admit they can't stop. One prematurely wise senior voices disdain for "gumpy sophomores who think it's harmless." Some end up in rehab programs, which far more often than not fail initially with...
...Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '00 claim that "the on-going violence in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza was directly provoked by the Israeli opening of a tunnel which borders the foundations of [Al-Aksa]" Mosque. What the Palestinians claim to be in such a huff and a puff about is an innocuous, inconspicuous and wholly inoffensive tunnel. Last July, I had the privilege of visiting the not-yet fully excavated site. It was more a matter of principle than of inconvenience when our tour group was prematurely made to turn around halfway along the route...