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Crack's immediate effects are readily observable: chronic sore throats and hoarseness are common. Crack can leave a user gasping for breath and vulnerable to emphysema. But these complaints pale in comparison with the even more dangerous changes that crack triggers in the body. Crack, says Masi, "throws the entire cardiovascular system into turmoil. Your blood vessels rapidly constrict. You're a key candidate for respiratory failure." Dramatically increased blood pressure and heart rate can lead to coronary attacks, and the intense stimulation of the brain may trigger convulsions...
Both because of its irrational and chronic proclivity toward hitting tiny nails with the largest hammer it can find, and because of its fascist modus operandi, the Administrative Board must be abolished. Likewise, as we have said, the Vietnam-war era Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--which is periodically trotted out solely to punish left-wing political demonstrators without benefit of appeal to another court--must go as well...
Researchers estimate that 10 to 15 percent of all pre-menopausal and one third of all infertile women have endometriosis, Cramer said. In addition to infertility, the disease can cause chronic pelvic pain and abnormal growths on the ovaries...
Last month Cambridge established a policy for all its public employees who have AIDS or who have been infected by the AIDS-related virus, HTLV-III. Although the measure states that employees "should be treated the same as with any other chronic illness," it calls for a special team of physicians to monitor AIDS cases...
...activists have complained that the city guidelines--though not as bad as other policies--discriminate against those with AIDS because they distinguish unfairly between sufferers of the disease and those who suffer from other chronic illnesses...