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...mean streets of New York City, where the drug entered the marketplace last year, it is known as "crack." Dealers sell pellet-size "rocks" of the highly purified cocaine in small plastic vials for prices starting at about $10. Crack is smoked rather than snorted, and a single hit provides a short but intense and practically instantaneous rush. The drug of the moment, it has been reported in at least 13 states, and police in New York and California have been busy busting the "base houses," or "rock houses," where the stuff is sold and smoked. Said William Hopkins...
...Saint--with 1659 career rushing yards--now needs 49 yards to crack fifth place on the Crimson's all-time career rushing list and 61 yards to hit fourth place...
...needs 21 yards to crack the Top 10 on the single-season rushing list and needs 104 yards to climb all the way to fifth place...
What's more, the Texas native needs six receptions to crack ninth place on the single-season receiving list. If he does that, he'll become the first running back to appear on the list...
...royalty, the English economist and journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Charles and Diana have allowed the shutters to be opened just a crack. To spread them any further would spoil the illusion. To be modern, yet keep the mystique--that is the trick. It is a trick that Charles and Diana have gracefully mastered...