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Although a final verdict must await further studies, most researchers now believe that aside from rare bad trips by novice smokers, marijuana is hazardous only for chronic heavy users-people who get stoned nearly every day. They risk becoming psychologically dependent on pot and damaging their lungs with the tar in marijuana smoke. But light or occasional use of marijuana-once or twice a week -usually produces only a pleasant high, no more dangerous than mild intoxication from alcohol. Of course, pot like alcohol affects users' judgment and reflexes, so it can lead to accidents if people drive...
...Tiff. In a letter to Carter last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev rejected Carter's invitation to an early summit; any such meeting, said Brezhnev, must await agreement on a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. To transmit that message, Brezhnev called U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon to the Kremlin for a table-thumping attack on Carter's Soviet policy...
...novel's construction follows the Arthur Hailey model, in which each of several dozen characters is assembled to await doom. But once that catastrophe appears-in the guise of a natural holocaust-the book is impossible to set aside...
...will pass over or under 800 streams and rivers, including the Yukon. It will rise 4,800 ft. into the Brooks Mountain Range, swoop down east of Fairbanks, rise 3,300 ft. in the Alaska Range, and eventually drop into half-million-bbl. storage tanks in Valdez to await loading on tankers. The trip will take a month, longer if trouble turns up. But if all goes well, an uninterrupted ribbon of oil-9 million bbl. just to fill the pipeline-should stretch across the Alaskan tundra by mid-July. The flow will be stepped up gradually, reaching...
...small of my back to the sashed waistline of my trousers, though I had been standing motionless since walking into the theater lobby. Perhaps I felt the little rivulet of sweat trailing down my spine precisely because I had not moved since finding a suitable spot where I could await the opening of the doors. In any case, my eyes flitted about the stuffy lobby, packed to the gills with presumably affluent moviegoers who could say two hours later that yes, they had attended the Boston premiere of the prospective Box Office Smash of 1977, Star Wars. So this...