Florida anti smoking X File ads spark debate
Florida's Truth campaign uses stark images of dead bodies and an industry boardroom to deter teens from smoking. The $50 million ads, created with state funds from a tobacco settlement, aim to change behavior though skeptics question impact and call for measurable results. The study reported 92 percent of 12 to 17 year olds recognize the ads, with organizers planning January releases to boost effectiveness ahead of the Super Bowl.
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Perez
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California
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Tilted Earth could explain tropical glacier evidence
A Nature study from Penn State researchers suggests a past tilt of up to 55 degrees might have cooled the tropics and warmed polar regions, allowing equatorial glaciers to form. The authors acknowledge uncertainties and compare their idea with the snowball Earth theory, inviting further study.
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Nature
Pennsylvania State University
James Kasting
North Pole
Alaska
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Poles
Equator
Earth
Kasting
Darren Williams
Lawrence Frakes
Harvard
Paul Hoffman
Richard Peltier
University of Toronto
Penn State
Siam
Houston recalls 2000 youth program booklets over errors
Houston officials recalled 2000 full color booklets on the mayor's youth programs after mis spellings and grammar mistakes. May Walker, the youth services director under Mayor Lee Brown, oversaw the 14 page item costing about $5165 in printing with copies in city offices and an online version.
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Orlando Sanchez
Houston Chronicle
Lee Brown
May Walker
Rockefeller Tree Lights Up to Start Holiday Season
In New York City thousands gather at Rockefeller Center as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Garth Brooks flip the switch, lighting the 75-foot Norway spruce with 26 000 lights at 8 52 p m. Shadashia Jackson, an 11 year old spectator, sings Silent Night and expresses joy at the moment.
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Shadashia Jackson
Rockefeller Center
Miss Jackson
Midtown Manhattan Plaza
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Garth Brooks
Adoption hearing seeks termination of natural father rights
In Franklin County Kansas the court holds an adoption hearing for Travis Cantrell Amanda Cantrell and Mikalia Gragg. The petitioner seeks to adopt Mikalia and terminate the natural father Terry Gragg rights. Defenses must be filed by January 15 1999 at 8:30 a.m. in Ottawa Kansas. Attorneys Janet Walsh Burns Walsh & Walsh represent the petitioner.
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Kansas
Travis Ray Cantrell
Amanda Sue Cantrell
Mikelia Elizabeth Gragg
State OF Kansas
Terry Ray Gragg
Mikalia Elizabeth Gragg
Ottawa
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Janet C. Walsh
Donald S, Cloud
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