Word: crystal
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...midst; on the same street, a cluster of teenage girls stand, giggling together under a street lamp - which, miraculously, is working. By day, the affluent Karada district bustles with life. Old storefronts - their glass once blown out by explosions and now replaced - display grandiose chandeliers for sale, dripping in crystal...
...York City Department of Health for nearly 14 years, beginning in June 1986. It was important to her in conceiving the character Josh not to create a gay man who would be an extreme caricature. Josh drinks too much, but he isn't a bug-eyed crystal-meth addict because - despite many lurid news stories - very few gay men who have unsafe sex do so on crystal. Only 6% of at-risk gay men cited in a 2004 study that Chiasson coauthored for the journal AIDS Care had used crystal before or during...
...gays are rising. There can be a long lag time between infection and diagnosis, so it's difficult to gauge precisely how much HIV is spreading. But various studies in the last few years have reported increases in unprotected sex among gay men, partly because of the spread of crystal meth. Too many guys are bringing condoms to their sexual encounters but then not using them...
...miles around, you can hear the white noise of endless small talk and the clinking of rented crystal. Listen closely—that’s the sound of blood being drained from a stone...
That statistic is mind-boggling. It illustrates both the technical expertise of Harvard fundraisers and, more important, the deep commitment of alums to the old Veritas. If it isn’t crystal clear now after the more than 300 years of the University’s existence, it should be: Harvard graduates are rich, and they like their alma mater. They’re even richer than University officials thought in the first place; witness the upping of the Campaign goal from $250 to 350 million...