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SINCE the mid 1970s, Cambridge has pursued a policy of aggressively seeking new development to raise tax revenue. In many ways, the policy has been a successful one. By attracting wealthy developers, Cambridge has been able to tranform itself from a dying industrial center to one of the area's most financially secure cities...
Playing perhaps its best volleyball of the season, the Harvard women's volleyball team finished second in the Harvard Women's Inivitational Volleyball Tournament this weekend at the Malkin Athletic Center...
...counselors report rising numbers of professionals -- doctors, nurses, accountants, professors -- trying to kick crack habits gone out of control. "We've got Wall Street executives who buy crack in the middle of the day and smoke it in the office," says Alan Horowitz, program director at A.C.I., a treatment center in New York City. "We had one air- traffic controller at J.F.K. airport who was smoking crack on his breaks...
Psychologists say upwardly mobile Americans who turn to crack share personality traits that may make them vulnerable to the drug's siren call. Dr. Jeffrey Rosecan, director of the Cocaine Abuse Treatment Program at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, sketches a profile of the typical crack user: a man in his 30s or 40s, single or divorced, with a high- pressure job, little inner peace and a history of moderate drug use and heavy drinking. "They're extremists, hard drivers, workaholics," says Rosecan. "With an all-or-nothing personality and a history of drug experimentation...
...wake of the call by Massachusetts state legislators for the restoration of the death penalty, Amnesty International will host hundreds of student leaders from around the country in its first national student conference on the death penalty today in the EII Center at Northeastern University...