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...brewers insist the beverage is a bone-fide beer. "It's made more or less in the same way as our Pils with many of the same ingredients," said a spokesman from Schelde. "We've just added some minerals and left out the alcohol. In fact, it's probably a lot healthier than regular beer...
...Iowa this fall, a federal appellate court upheld the right of the Burlington Northern Railroad to test workers involved in accidents as well as those returning from furlough. More important, the Supreme Court last week refused to hear the appeal of five jockeys that random tests for drug and alcohol abuse violated their rights. A lower court had upheld the testing on the ground that jockeys are voluntary participants in an industry that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration hopes that the courts will apply that reasoning to workers in sensitive government...
...rather than political, reasons. Many are high-school dropouts with no job prospects, impressionable youths whom the N.P.A. recruits and molds into loyal killers for the communist cause. For Joven, 21, joining meant personal salvation. "I had a different lifestyle before," he says. "I was addicted to marijuana and alcohol. I hung out with a neighborhood gang." Joven was shot during an offensive four months ago and the bullet rests painfully under his spine. But he says, "I'm happy with the comrades. Even though we come from different neighborhoods, from different classes, we fight...
...There are few other diversions. The newspapers I bring are read and reread, then torn into strips to use as cigarette papers. Alcohol is banned and food is scarce. For two days there is gristly pork-a treat for the guests-and afterwards only tiny salted fish or lentil gruel. When the Philippine army blocks supply routes, the rebels hunt the depleted forests for wild pigs, monkeys, snakes and beetle grubs...
...consciousness can be pushed around by physical manipulations. Electrical stimulation of the brain during surgery can cause a person to have hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality, such as a song playing in the room or a childhood birthday party. Chemicals that affect the brain, from caffeine and alcohol to Prozac and LSD, can profoundly alter how people think, feel and see. Surgery that severs the corpus callosum, separating the two hemispheres (a treatment for epilepsy), spawns two consciousnesses within the same skull, as if the soul could be cleaved in two with a knife...