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But cocaine's spell is by no means confined to the obviously troubled or the weak-willed. Free-basing in particular, says Harvard Psychiatry Professor Dr. Lester Grinspoon, "powerfully fastens itself on people." Elizabeth, 33, a Chicago hair stylist, had occasionally sniffed coke for a decade. In the fall of...
Sometimes it is purely psychological wounds that drive cocaholics to therapy. But diehard users can be prone to high-pitched anxiety, irrational fears, paranoia and even, reports Harvard's Grinspoon, "out-and-out cocaine psychosis:" Violence is not rare. When Nicky's wife finally smashed his free-basing pipe, he...
Harvey is one of a growing company of enthusiasts who practice personal data basing. In dens, living rooms and small offices across the country, an estimated 1 million data basers are transferring the contents of black books, file cards and shaggy-eared folders into their personal computers, cataloguing everything from...
Not all personal data basing, however, makes good sense. Two of the most widely touted applications, balancing checking accounts and filing kitchen recipes, are better done with pencil and paper than on screen. Checkbooks can be carried in a pocket and filled out on the spot. For recipes, one good...
College officials have said that, because the lottery is run according to a random assignment of numbers to rooming groups, basing preferences on polls and open space figures is generally ineffective in guaranteeing a particular final result.