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The top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, is in hot water with the White House for some derogatory comments he made during an interview for a magazine article. The remarks were controversial enough to have him summoned to the W

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By Carol Pearson Washington 07 May 2008 The World Health Organization expects the number of women who smoke to triple over the next generation, if current trends continue. As a result, it expects more than 200 million women to die from tobacco induce

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 12 February 2008 The World Health Organization completed its first-ever global report on tobacco control. The grim statistics show that unless governments get more involved, the number of tobacco users will continue to

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新的一学期就要开始了。寒假的过度自由让不少刚返校的学生都患上了节后综合症(post-holiday syndrome)：很多学生出现食不知味、夜不能寐、上课打哈欠等症状。对此，专家们给出了怎样的建议呢

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Monitoring Tobacco Ads on Media

Related: Guangzhou Bans Tobacco Sales on World No Tobacco Day Today marks the World No Tobacco Day - An event endorsed by the World Health Organization highlighting health risks associated with smoking. This year there are calls for a ban on tobacco

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Tobacco control needs stronger smoke signals

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KIPP seems like the kind of school in the kind of neighborhood with the kind of students that would make educators despair KIPP学校就是在这样的一个地区里，由这样的孩子组成的学校，而这样的学校会让教育工作者绝望。

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He was driving home one evening, on a two lane country road. Work in this small mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the factory closed, he'd been unemployed, and with winter raging o