Word: american
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Crack is not for men only. One of the most striking developments of the past five years is the increase of crack abuse among middle-class women. The American Association for Clinical Chemistry, the organization whose members perform 80% of the drug tests in the U.S., reports that among people who test positive for drugs, the percentage of women jumped from 25% in 1972 to 40% in 1988. Many of them first used cocaine to help lose weight...
...given the sweeping transformations under way, these measures seem limp. Such a step-by-step approach would be, at best, yet another example of the -- dare one say timid? -- incrementalism on arms control and trade that has marked Soviet-American relations for four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make...
Instead, Bush could challenge Gorbachev with courage and imagination. He could ask the Soviets to join the West in making enormous, fundamental cuts in defense spending. This would not be naive pacifism but hardheaded self- interest. It could be a boon to the deficit-choked American economy as well as to perestroika. Rather than negotiating trims in a few weapons programs, Bush could propose demobilizing significant portions of each side's military, testing whether Gorbachev would go along with dismantling whole divisions and reconfiguring forces so as to create a less dangerous world...
...COOK by Julia Child (Knopf; $50). The first tome in nine years from the nation's queen of cuisine is, expectedly, an instructional masterpiece: precise directions, lavish illustrations, wise little tips on timing and the proper tools. The recipes are mostly Euroclassics with variations, many lightened for health-conscious American palates. A boon for beginners; a must for the more experienced...
Since she didn't date, didn't wear makeup (still doesn't) and took college classes while still in high school, she didn't have a typical American adolescence, but says she didn't care. From childhood on, she could go "for hours and days just playing by myself or reading," and recalls with pleasure how she would build little towns in her room or beg her father to let her throw a pot, or have spirited games of chess with Tan. "I find it very fun to be thinking all the time, figuring things out. I guess you could...