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Nation & World
New York smoking ban takes effect
Nonsmokers are taking a breath of fresher air in New York City, but some smokers are fuming.
A new smoking ban took effect Sunday. It covers all workplaces, including bars, small restaurants, bingo parlors and other venues not covered by the city's previous smoking law. The law was pushed through by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former smoker.
One opponent sums it up this way: "Ridiculous. Stalinesque. Brutal."
Restaurant and bar owners claim the law will hurt business. They could be fined $400 for violating the ban.
Meyer: U.S. controls likely source of ricin
The Pentagon's top general says American forces are searching a compound in northeastern Iraq where terrorists probably made the biological toxin ricin.
Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard Myers told CNN's "Late Edition" that the site once belonged to the group Ansar al-Islam, and that al-Qaida was working there as well to make poisons. Myers said that's probably the source of the ricin that was found in London in January.
U.S. officials had said before the war that they had evidence that Ansar had tested chemical and biological weapons on livestock and possibly on people at the site.
Ricin is relatively easy to make from castor beans and highly deadly in small quantities. There's no treatment or antidote for the poison, which can take days to kill.
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