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...school, falling in love with algebra and studying math on his own at home. He talks with his rabbi. In high school he has an affair with a drama teacher. Then he goes to college, learns a lot of physics, befriends another physics student who turns into a drug addict, goes to graduate school, learns more physics, finishes his doctorate and marries an artist. The marriage deteriorates, and the book ends...
...some legal experts doubt that the the Medicaid-reimbursement suits will be the decisive new weapon. Says Stephen Sugarman, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley: "My feeling is that a lot of these untried methods have a dubious likelihood of success." But as any nicotine addict knows, when people want to try to stop smoking, they're willing to try almost anything...
...inspired by columnist Cohen and Governor Allen, I come forward in a spirit of public service and self-loathing to admit my own sad story. I was a Minesweeper addict...
...fact: Not quite. According to the district's human-services department, there are currently 1,200 children in foster care, wards of the city because their parents neglected them. There are currently only nine "border babies," infants born to drug-addicted mothers unable to care for them. In just four well-publicized cases were kids actually placed in Dumpsters this year, which is shocking enough. Yet because of liberal policies, Gingrich said, "we say to a 13-year-old drug addict who's pregnant, 'Put your baby in the Dumpster; that...
...Haitian intelligence agency, and poured the first of several millions into it. It was supposed to keep tabs on the narcotics trade but never produced much antidrug intelligence. (No wonder, since the CIA was relying largely on drug users; Constant, for example, is widely believed to be a cocaine addict.) The real aim, however, was to use SIN to recruit agents who could supply political and military intelligence -- and never mind if they were engaging in human- rights violations at the same time. In 1987 the CIA also financed candidates in Haitian elections and refused to tell Congress which ones...