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...heady bull markets of the past two years, more than a few hot young brokers on Wall Street have stoked up on drugs for frenetic trading sessions. Steve, a stockbroker and recovering addict, snorted cocaine in his office, in men's rooms, even in elevators. "It woke me up and gave me strength," he recalls. "It made me feel like J.P. Morgan...
...Students could watch MTV, movies and sports twenty-four hours a day," says a self-proclaimed TV addict who declined to reveal his identity...
...there is no doubt about the natural superiority of pasta, there are several questions that haunt the addict who dreams of little else. What pasta shapes go best with which sauces? Is the rich meatiness of a beef-and-tomato sauce better appreciated when wound into the long, sturdy strands of bucatini or when filling the cavities of the convoluted lumache, or snail shell? Have any shapes become so unfashionable that they are being phased out? What will the newly increased U.S. tariff (from less than 1% of value to 40%) do to the price of imported pasta? And, finally...
Where the lights come into their own is on Fourth and Fifth avenues, not only the Christmas decorations but the shops shining from inside: Santiago Grocery, De An's House of Beauty. Billy, the drug addict with the gash on his cheek, skulks in and out of these lights like an actor on a stage. He pauses at various clusters of men his age, hangs out for a while, then moves along. Everywhere there are huddles of such men, standing together and apart at once, their bodies angled away from one another while they remain close. From a shop window...
...Genoa, Italy, police refused to touch a sickly young girl wandering aimlessly in a public park until they were provided with gloves. They feared that she was an AIDS victim. She turned out to be a drug addict...