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...sidenote, Weil added that American demand for cocaine has even managed to harm peoples like the ones he studied--Columbian cartels pressure farmers to grow the highly profitable cash crop...
...than a blowhard preacher without the credentials. Who is this rich, anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-corporal- and capital-punishment zealot to tell people who struggle every day to get by about "'moral poverty' born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too easy divorce"? I am sick of the crop of rich Republicans who hypocritically sermonize about the decline in "family values," when their values translated into actions destroy the families of millions! MARK ROLFSEMA Chelmsford, Massachusetts First Colin Powell, now William Bennett. Both are men of substance who refuse to play the game because it contradicts their sense...
...island looked healthy. Why? The answer, says the Smithsonian's Jackson, is sea urchins, which are also herbivores and which temporarily filled in for the missing fish. In 1983, however, the urchins succumbed to a mysterious disease. All of a sudden Jamaica's reefs crashed. With no urchins to crop back the seaweed, Jamaica's corals, once considered the jewels of the Caribbean, were soon smothered by a vegetative thicket...
...same questions crop up year after year: Am I balancing my life well? Am I taking advantage of what life is offering? Am I achieving my goals? Am I really giving my best? And then comes one that is always a bit frightening: Am I heading toward some place I want to arrive...
...inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before they are 80," says Danish researcher James Vaupel. "In those years there will be a lot of health and biomedical progress...