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...says Chester Earl Jordan, father of a five-year-old Malcolm X student. Jordan, along with others, patrols the neighborhood at night, a flashlight in one hand, and -- until recently -- a gun in the other. "If you sat down a third-grader and asked him how to weigh crack, how to bag it, how to load a 9-mm, how a beeper works, you're going to get first-rate answers right...
...hope that I could maybe trick my body into thinking it was getting the real thing. Well, it didn't work for me any better than it did for them, and perhaps that's why rehab centers today don't recommend snorting flower as an intermediate step for recovering crack junkies...
...Governors in California, Florida and Illinois have emphasized the prevention of social and environmental problems. Studies show, for example, that modest investments in prenatal care and prevention of drug abuse among pregnant women can save millions of dollars in hospital treatment for crack babies and other unhealthy infants...
While most of the world can only stand by and watch the United Nations action in Somalia, 2200 high school students from around the world have come to Harvard to take their own crack...
...surprise to those who have read Feynman's two popular autobiographies, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, or to those who watched him dip a bit of rubber in ice water during the Challenger accident investigation, making it crack and proving that cold temperatures had led to the space shuttle's 1986 crash. Feynman's public image was that of a skirt-chasing, bongo-playing wise guy, a man who thought he was smarter than anyone else, and who therefore probably deserved to be taken down...