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...baskets at the Star Market are filled with poinsettas and cookie cutters, tinsel and candy canes. Hershey's Kisses no longer come wrapped only in silver--now they are red and green as well. And even the Massachusetts lottery has a holiday bonus--scratch away the Christmas stockings...
...bonus, buprenorphine seems radically to suppress the urge to take cocaine, which is abused by an estimated 70% to 80% of heroin addicts. Methadone also tends to reduce coke use, but less dramatically. While methadone may wean half of those treated from cocaine, buprenorphine could slash the number of coke abusers to almost nil, says Yale researcher Thomas Kosten. A Harvard study of rhesus monkeys habituated to using coke found that daily doses of buprenorphine led the monkeys to kick the habit completely...
...each 75 cents issue sold, the salesperson keeps 55 cents, including a nickel that goes into a mandatory savings plan that can be used only to obtain an apartment. Some vendors earn more than $200 a week. After selling 500 papers, the salespeople win a bonus: a winter coat...
Beyond revelations about Frank, the paper has scored its share of scoops -- some substantial, others ephemeral. Reporters earn a bonus for each exclusive. The Times covers conservative politics well and wielded influence during the Reagan Administration. But in the age of glasnost, the paper's strident anti-Communism seems out of touch and its editors are struggling to find a new voice. So far, the results are mixed. "It's very difficult to be a tabloid, a sensationalist paper and a respectable paper at the same time," says Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution...
...times post-modern, at times vaudevillian and it is frequently uneven. A bonus in all of this is the truly great moments that come with creative tinkering. The opening is funny, ingenious and anachronistic; a prologue entreating the 20th century audience to be indulgent and, one would suppose, to engage in willing suspension of disbelief...