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Although public health officials and physicians have sometimes voiced skepticism about campaigns to alter behavior for health reasons, the decline of smoking over the past four decades marks a truly impressive example of the capacity of an informed public to curtail harmful behaviors.

In the course of the last century — as Terry's report made clear — we came to know, rationally and scientifically, the character of the harm it inflicts.

It's those voices, raised in harmony or playing off each other in various combinations on a collection of old but not overly familiar tunes, that give this bluegrass gospel its thrilling immediacy.

With humans fleeing harm's way, vast swatches of land returned to the wild.

“They all went out the door before Christmas.” U.S. veterans who were exposed to depleted uranium during the 1991 Gulf War have continued to excrete the potentially harmful chemical in their urine for years after their exposure, according to a new study published in the journal Health Physics.

He promised to "reach out across the partisan divide", to "build consensus" in "a new spirit of cooperation" and "end the bitterness and wrangling in Washington". He promised to "stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building exercises". He sounded amiably, reassuringly harmless.

The grounded Big Boi brings the southern-fried funk and the boom bap on Speakerboxxx, spiced up with live horns, soulful harmonies and songs that show that you can rock a party, show concern for your people and question the government's intentions all at the same time.

Just like those two, Donnie loves him some early '70s Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, and their influence runs very, very strong through the music, harmonies and concepts of The Colored Section.

By the same token there was little show of love between the aunt and the niece, neither of whom had been able to envisage an alternative to their present arrangement, but they were both loyal and obedient people, and they sustained an undemanding harmony, which, though honourable, provided little joy.

In the light of dawn he noticed the remarkable fact that the animal had wings harmoniously joined to its body.

High above and out of harm's way were the cold, gleaming eyes of stars, and each one was so strangely iridescent that if a man in one of the farmhouses had risen for an aspirin or a glass of warm milk, he could have been forgiven for waking his wife to tell her he'd seen--well, something.

George Mickelson, who served before Janklow returned to office in 1994 after Mickelson's death, promoted racial harmony and established "Native American Day" as a South Dakota holiday, Janklow downplayed its significance.

According to the so-called “Austrian Idea,” Austria-Hungary was not so much multinational as supranational—a sort of Platonic form, subsuming in harmony and stability the lesser realities of race and nation.

It's as good a place as any to ponder the words of poet Alfred Austin, who visited Killarney in 1900 and wrote of the area: "If mountain, wood and water harmoniously blent constitute the most perfect and adequate loveliness that nature presents, it surely must be owned, that it has, all the world over, no superior." Their activities have always seemed harmless enough, but, with the launch last week of a new campaign called "The Marbles Reunited", led by Professor Anthony Snodgrass and supported by the politician Robin Cook, a new tactic is being employed to gain what the lobbyists want: spin.

Today's profligacy may harm us, sure, but we can use that to our advantage by tagging Governor Corrupto with the blame, and righting the sled once we sweep into office.


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