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Study: States with highest lung cancer rates spend least on prevention By JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press Writer Many states with the highest lung cancer rates are squandering tobacco settlement money intended for disease prevention on unrelated programs, according to a study of health and fiscal data released Thursday by a national anti-cancer group. Even more alarming, anti-smoking advocates say, is that states with the gravest need for stop-smoking programs often spend the least on them. In 1998, 46 states won $206 billion from major cigarette makers. Since then, policy-makers have struggled over how much of that money should be earmarked...

My E-mail sent 7/6/01: I just read that in order for an organization that supports Scouting to be heard on your publically funded airwaves...you need to hear from taxpayers. Consider yourself contacted by 2, as my wife and I have watched over the years as you more and more openly show your liberal/socialist bias. If there was a way we could withhold that portion of our taxes that fund your organization...we would. After your recent hit piece on the Scouts, you now have an obligation to let the other side be heard. Like Spike Lee once wrote for a movie: ...

MOTHER'S DAY BANNED . . . By ANDREA PEYSER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 8, 2001 -- PARENTS whose kids attend a pricey Manhattan private school are in an uproar over a new policy aimed at protecting the feelings of children raised by same-sex couples: Mother's Day has been banned. And in the interest of fairness, Father's Day, too. Students at Rodeph Sholom Day School on the Upper West Side, where tennis legend John McEnroe sends his children, came home Friday with an unusual note tucked into their book bags. "I am writing this letter to inform you that after much thought and ...

Free Tacos for U.S. If Mir Hits Floating Taco Bell Ocean Target Taco Bell sets 40 by 40 foot target in South Pacific for Mir's Re-Entry IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001--Taco Bell is offering a free taco to everyone in the United States if the core of the Mir space station hits a floating Taco Bell target placed in the South Pacific. Later this week, all eyes will be fixed on the sky in anticipation of the 150-ton space station's return to earth. Taco Bell has created a 40 by 40-foot target, painted with a Bell bull's-eye and bold purple ...

Liberty and license are not synonymous. Parents know better. Too many of them have had the unfortunate dilemma of dealing with the "I am free to do as I please" child who routinely, or upon occasion, exercises that egocentric proclamation to reckless extremes. These parents stand as witnesses that a widely accepted notion - that freedom and moral responsibility are not connected - is at best a delusion instilled by mis-education, not experience, and is at worst a diabolical lie. The pain they feel, the shipwrecked lives they labor to pick up and reassemble, the incessant pleadings to stubborn, short-sighted ...

ORONO — For a week or two, 9-year-old Gelsey Bostick took to wearing all her sweat shirts inside out because of an incident at school that her third-grade mind couldn’t quite grasp. In December, Gelsey wore a black sweat shirt with white lettering across the front that said “Jesus Christ” to the Asa Adams School. Her teacher asked her to turn it inside out after the sweat shirt set the class to talking. Gelsey complied and class went on. Gelsey’s mother, Cynthia Bostick, admits she has “reacted slowly” to the incident. “As I reflected on it, I became more and ...