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THE cost of quitting smoking could fall by $112 a month with a nicotine patch subsidy under consideration.Read the whole article at The Daily Telegraph

Two days before the Eighty-second Academy Awards, the International Cinematographers Guild hosted, of all things, the Forty-seventh Annual Publicists Awards, a gala luncheon at the Hyatt Regency in Century City, to celebrate Hollywood’s press agents. When the publicists first organized, back in 1937, they had their . . .Read the whole article at The Newyorker

In August of 1929, Sigmund Freud scoffed at the notion that he would do anything as crass as write an autobiography. “That is of course quite an impossible suggestion,” he wrote to his nephew, who had conveyed an American publisher’s suggestion that the great man write . . .Read the whole article at The Newyorker

An article published . . . by the Centers for Disease Control [reported] that about 20 people a year are killed by cows in the United States. . . . In 16 cases, “the animal was deemed to have purposefully struck the victim,” the report states. . . . All but one victim died from [...]