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...over the years, maintenance treatment with methadone and other synthetic opiates like buprenorphine has proved successful - more than any other heroin-addiction therapy - in getting people off illicit drugs and lowering HIV transmission rates, crime and death among users. That success, in part, has got researchers wondering whether addiction to other drugs - namely to the stimulants cocaine and methamphetamine - could be curbed in the same way, by substituting a chemically similar alternative. (See the Year in Health, from...
...arisen in the inner city since the 1960s. But Western placed much of the onus on politicians.“It’s been more of a political process than an economic process in which elected officials began competing with each other on who could be harder on crime,” he said. In 1979, 12 percent of African American men would be incarcerated at some point in their lives. By 1999, that number had increased to 20 percent. “Prison has become a normal life event,” Western said. Law professor Carol Steiker...
...operetta, the fairy Iolanthe (Bridget Haile ’11) has been banished from fairyland for the awful crime of marrying the Lord Chancellor, a mortal. Her half-fairy son, Strephon (Aseem A. Shukla ’11), falls in love with the beautiful Phyllis (Anna Ward), the ward of the Lord Chancellor (Matthew C. Stone ’11). But the Lord Chancellor will not consent to their marriage because he, as well as many in the House of Peers—a satirical portrayal of British Parliament—are in love with Phyllis. After the fairy queen...
Perhaps not surprisingly, in Reykjavik talk about geothermal power can sometimes take an evangelical turn. One afternoon in May, in the slick offices of Reykjavik Energy, Gudmundur Thoroddsson points out a World Bank study that lists electricity above corruption, crime and access to capital as the biggest obstacle to budding entrepreneurs in Africa. "It saddens me when I come to a place where you have a big oil-driven generator sitting on top of a geothermal field and you're paying three or four times the cost [for energy]," says Thoroddsson, the former CEO of Reykjavik Energy's investment...
...Kozlowski was arguably the most high-profile executive crook of this millennium, but he had plenty of company, in crime and punishment. The top players at Adelphi Communications and Worldcom were also convicted of fraud, and saddled with imprisonments from 15 to 25 years. These sentences are certainly not insignificant. Yet, when you factor in the possibility for parole, the fates of these criminals seems less bleak—especially in light of their Chinese counterpart...