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...Invisible Current" [May 30] speaks to the heart of the sad dilemma of the use offeree. The point of your article could have been said another way: A kind word and a gun will always get you more than just a kind word. Eugene L. Grossman Englewood, Colo...
...cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
...collapse of the synfuels industry, which was to have produced high-cost fuels from shale, tar sands and other sources. Dozens of projects have been shelved in the face of falling energy prices. One of the largest was Exxon's multibillion-dollar Colony Shale Oil venture near Parachute, Colo., which was closed a year ago at a cost of 2,100 jobs. Recalls Allen Koeneke, president of the First National Bank in Rifle, Colo. (pop. 3,215), some 17 miles away: "When the news hit, we would have had a lot of people jumping off five-story buildings...
Many dealers, selling a few grams or even an ounce or two a week, are in the business to satisfy their cravings. Fred Kamm, 42, for eight years a user-turned-dealer in coke-laden Aspen, Colo., made deliveries on a motorcycle and carried a telephone beeper to take orders; he also injected two grams a day of the merchandise. Says Margaret, the New York sales woman: "My boyfriend and I would get an ounce and sell off some and use some, but we always used more than we sold...
Experts are uncertain about the reasons for high Asian performance. William Dean, who directs special programs in Fort Collins, Colo., where there are 150 Asian-born students, observes that whatever the students' verbal skills, "there is a universal language available in mathematics." The Asians speak it fluently. The national norm for math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 467 out of a possible 800. In 1981, Asian Americans averaged 513. In California a remarkable 68% of Japanese-born students scored over 600, as did 66% of students born in Korea...