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...that "residents" lauded the new design for the Knafel Center (News, June 5) misrepresents the Mid Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission proceedings on May 30. While it is true that several of the commissioners (who are all "residents") applauded Harry Cobb's new design, the residents attending the hearing were given no opportunity to react to the proposal...
...earlier plan was designed on the assumption that a building as quiet and recessive and deferential as possible would be seen by the community as being most appropriate," Cobb said...
Listening to the complaints of commissioners and the public, Cobb said he realized his judgement was mistaken...
...Cobb County, Ga., May 11, 2000. It's a Thursday morning, and 18-year-old "Karen" and five friends decide to go for it. They skip first period and sneak into the woods near their upscale high school. One of them takes out six rolls--six ecstasy pills--and they each swallow one. Then back to school, flying on a drug they once used only on weekends. Now they smile stupid gelatinous smiles at one another, even as high school passes them by. That night they will all go out and drop more ecstasy, rolling into the early hours...
...ready availability of ecstasy, from Cobb County to Grand Rapids, is a newer phenomenon. Ecstasy--or "e"--enjoyed a brief spurt of mainstream use in the '80s, before the government outlawed it in 1985. Until recently, it remained common only on the margins of society--in clubland, in gay America, in lower Manhattan. But in the past year or so, ecstasy has returned to the heartland. Established drug dealers and mobsters have taken over the trade, and they are meeting the astonishing demand in places like Flagstaff, Ariz., where "Katrina," a student at Northern Arizona University who first took...