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Politics is almost unnaturally clean???no patronage, virtually no corruption. The citizens are well educated; the high school dropout rate, 7.6%, is the nation's lowest. Minnesotans are remarkably civil; their crime rate is the third lowest in the nation (after Iowa and Maine). By a combination of political and cultural tradition, geography and sheer luck, Minnesota nurtures an extraordinarily successful society...
Except for marijuana, Jeffrey has now been clean???off drugs?for several months. "Heroin is a death trip," he says today. "I really enjoyed it. But once you get the habit, you're in trouble. One good friend is in the hospital with an $80-a-day habit. Another is almost dead from hepatitis. Two others I know, one a girl, died from overdoses. Every time you stick that needle in your arm, you're playing with your life...
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