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Prolonged or long-term effects of marijuana use are an area of much dispute. There have been reports of psychotic reactions, personality change, impaired learning ability and development of a chronic lethargy. By no means all doctors are convinced, however, that marijuana is the real cause of these reactions...
...soothsaying fraternity conjures all year long to supply the public addiction. The orgiastic bumper crop comes as a sort of special start-of-the-year fix. One effect of the overdose is that it makes everyone momentarily forget that public dependence on prognosticating is not just seasonal but chronic...
...fascinating draw. A self-described "Jeffersonian democrat," Padover exhibits an intimate and often lurid portrait. As an adolescent, Marx embraced Christ, then, in a long hysterical poem, identified himself with Lucifer. During the exhausting research and writing of Das Kapital, he was plagued by illnesses ranging from carbuncles to chronic liver inflammation. Padover shows the father of socialism distracting himself from the pain and humiliation of a carbuncle on the scrotum by quoting pornographic French verse in a letter to his German collaborator, Frederick Engels. More appealingly, there is a vignette of the whitebearded Marx trotting obediently on all fours...
After the People's Republic was founded in 1949, following a generation-long civil war between Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and Mao's Communists, China eliminated chronic unemployment and controlled the country's wanton inflation. But there were major disruptions...
Serious and chronic food shortages are only the most visible failing of the avowedly Marxist regime that wrested control of Angola from the confusion of independence and civil war two years ago. A dogmatic and strongly centralized government was imposed by the MPLA in an attempt to construct a multiracial egalitarian society out of the rubble of four centuries of Portuguese rule. Now, after 37 months of trial and error in which almost every sector of the economy showed alarming declines, Neto is steering Angola toward a more practical course. But it is not easy...