Three Pipe Problem

"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."

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Instead of its longtime role as a “refuge for the bright liberal arts student who didn’t know what he or she wanted to do,” law schools should have a targeted focus designed to prepare future lawyers for the realities of the job market.

— One law school reduces admissions, says that’s the future of legal education | Inside Higher Ed

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The apparatus is so arranged,” explained the Journal, “that the subscriber can lie down or follow some other occupation while he hears the news. Should the information not prove delectable to the auditor, he simply places the trumpet upon the hooks fitted to the receiver.

— The Wilson Quarterly: The Call of the Future by Tom Vanderbilt

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The wealthiest university on Earth can't afford its academic journal subscriptions

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As you might have noticed, the consumption of antidepressants is on a steep rise as smoking declines, and we have no idea of the long-term effects of that.

— David Hockney’s smoking hot memo to Andrew Lansley: Keep your mean, dreary views out of my life | Mail Online

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