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ISBN 0-930900-82-0 The Way Home: Collected Longer Prose
(It has been a long time since Sinclair Lewis wrote his vaunted 1922 book, Babbitt --and, for that matter, several years since our present Secretary of the Interior's last name led to snickers during his run for the Presidency--and so it is worth a reminder, without condescension or any suggestion that any good Duke graduate reading this might not get it, (especially coming from a graduate of the University of North Carolina, as I regret not to tell you it is), that "Babbitt" refers not to any real person or, for truly old-timers, to the pouring of Babbitt metal to make engine bearings for Model A Fords, but rather was a fictional character, George Babbitt, a resident of Zenith, the "Zip City", given to too strongly held middle class values of materialism and mercantilism for sheer profit
Joseph Cavins of Orange County, California lost and eye and now faces multiple surgeries to reconstruct bones in his face
However, at least 38 million adolescents aged 1315 years are reported to use any form of tobacco globally [81]
