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Success in school is student driven? It depends on the individual student's desire to learn? No, no, no! Everybody knows that success in school comes from megamillion-dollar tax levies, self-esteem classes, antidrug programs, smaller class sizes and more school psychologists and counselors. Persistence and hard work indeed! BEVERLEY SEITER Redmond, Wash...
...black kid who can make $250 a week in a regular job but can make $1,000 a week selling drugs? Or the ghetto dwellers who turn to drugs out of despair at ever being able to change their reality? Ad campaigns can be an effective part of an antidrug strategy, but law enforcement needs to be complemented by treatment programs and social programs to keep people off drugs." In other words, convincing America that drugs aren't cool may not be enough...
...federal advertising budget for an antidrug campaign that rivals the amount of money Nike spends on sneaker commercials may well make middle-class teenagers just say no. But it's unlikely to end the inner-city drug crisis. President Clinton, backed by bipartisan support, announced on Thursday a $200 million-a-year antidrug media campaign, launched with a TV ad depicting a teenager trashing her kitchen to illustrate the corrosive effect of heroin...
...frequently detained by police for running guns. By 16, he was old enough to be sent to prison, charged with weapons possession and membership in Fianna, the junior branch of the illegal I.R.A. He served eight years. Now McConville, 38, wears a tie, runs an antidrug program while toiling on a master's degree in computer science. He is still active in the republican movement, albeit in its nonviolent branch. An agreement, he says, was necessary even if it brings unwanted compromises. The alternative is more violence. "Anyone who has been involved in armed struggle will do anything to avoid...
...body's fat cells for relatively long periods and that "it's reasonable to assume that secondhand smoke could be absorbed." After the final ruling, Rebagliati remained cool, redisplaying the medal he had kept in his pocket during the three-day fracas. He said he would join in some antidrug campaigns but refused to condemn drugs outright. "I am definitely going to change my life-style. But I will not change my friends," he said. "I will stick by them." He added, "I may have to wear a gas mask from...