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...families and costs $117 billion a year in everything from medical bills to lost workdays. The magnitude of the problem has been overshadowed in recent years by the national preoccupation with the new threat of AIDS and the widespread use of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, marijuana and crack. "Take the deaths from every other abused drug," says Loran Archer, deputy director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in Washington. "Add them together, and they still don't equal the deaths or the cost to society of alcohol alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...right to crack down on poor Ec 10 section teaching. But the University must also make a coordinated effort to deal with problems a TF-intensive educational system raises. It's a problem that patchwork solutions no longer can contain. Instead, a comprehensive solution is demanded...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Why Not the Best? | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Then there was another time when this really high-placed source, whose name I have promised never to reveal, told me there was a huge story breaking in Cambridge at The Harvard Crimson. I stopped the presses. I sent my crack team up Route 95 North to spark some killer team coverage of the story...

Author: By Dave Wyshner, | Title: Why We Love to Work at the Yale Daily | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

Running back Tony Hinz is Harvard's leading rusher, but not the unprecedented player Yohe is. Hinz has had a great season (628 yards rushing in eight games), but it might not even crack the all-time...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Gridders Shake Down Quakers, 31-14 | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...largest overseas U.S. Air Force facility. All bore the signature of the N.P.A.'s sparrow-unit death squads, so called for their small size and great mobility. Persons claiming to represent the N.P.A. took responsibility for the murders, which came just one week after President Corazon Aquino vowed to crack down on the Communist insurgents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Target: Americans | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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