A new study shows that smoking harms more than just facial skin. Even skin that is covered and not exposed to the sun shows wrinkling and aging in s
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How is it that Jim Crace, an English novelist, and our own Cormac McCarthy sat down at about the same time to write novels about a blistered, disinte
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Climate experts have greeted George W. Bush's call for a "new framework" to combat global warming, proffered days ahead of a G8 summit at which climate change will top the agenda, with some relief but even more skepticism."It is positive that Preside
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In his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with "otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies," during the prohibition era.Stevens, who t
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Congress is considering bipartisan legislation that will cover poor children in the U.S. The major obstacle? President Bush is vowing to veto the bill.
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Academics and environmentalists are questioning the ethics and impact of offsetting -- and suggesting that offsetting schemes have not been as effective as claimed.
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Once you've been arrested for the harsh anti-marijuana laws on the books, you can be denied everything from food stamps to voting rights to the right to adopt a child.
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El Cantante is supposed to be about salsa legend Hector Lavoe, but the movie dotes on Jennifer Lopez who looks totally out of touch with Latin culture and says little about the Puerto Rican community that inspired the music.
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