Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid the desolation of economic collapse, the Soviet aerospace industry has come up with an apparent winner. Flown by a crack new aerobatic team from Moscow, MiG-29 Fulcrum-D jet fighters dazzled spectators at a French air base last month with demonstrations of the Soviet-invented "cobra" maneuver. In a chilling imitation of a striking snake, the aircraft rockets upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies backward in that position and then snaps forward again and resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss...
...Equality, a six-year-old civil rights group. "The answer is no. It's a solution to a political problem. The problem we now face is fundamentally an economic problem." From that perspective, it does not matter whether the current bill passes, since neither version would help a single crack addict kick the habit, persuade a youngster to stay in school or give an unwed mother the training she needs...
Testimony from many of the addicts themselves seems to support Durfee's argument. Doreen Flaherty, 27, a recovering crack addict from Garden Grove, Calif., remembers spending a week in jail after being arrested for possession of cocaine. "I kept crying in jail because I wanted to see my little girl," she says. "That's all that mattered to me." After she made bail, Doreen did not return home to her daughter but sought out a drug dealer instead. When a girlfriend tracked her down at the crack house, Doreen told the dealer to say she was not there. "How could...
...cities with the biggest crack problems have backed away from their initial seize-the-kids approach. Until 1986, Los Angeles County automatically took at least temporary custody of drug-exposed newborns. Then the crack epidemic exploded. "If we took every child who came out with a positive tox screen," says Gerhard Moland, a children's services administrator, "it would overwhelm the system." Now social workers consider the child's health and the mother's potential for rehabilitation when making court recommendations. The biggest factor in determining whether or not the county takes custody: the presence of a sober grandmother. Currently...
...HEALTH: Crack Kids...