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In Pakistan, however, President Zia's measures have hardly disturbed the more than 400 drug dens still operating all along the highway from Peshawar to Karachi. An addict there can order a fix almost as easily as a meal in a restaurant. The nation's heroin trade is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Let Them Shoot Smack | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

The reaction of U.S. educators to this flurry of concern has been largely one of dismay. They accuse the Administration of overstating the problem. "The President is painting schools with a broad stroke, conjuring up what they were ten years ago," says Mary Futrell, president of the 1.7 million-member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Preparing to Wield the Rod | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Far from being corrupting dens of iniquity, the arcades, Brooks concluded, were places for young people to meet and talk. Said he: "They're like a bunch of golfers talking about what happened at the ninth hole." Fears that drugs and liquor are commonplace were off target, Brooks reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Donkey Kong Goes to Harvard | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

Harvey is one of a growing company of enthusiasts who practice personal data basing. In dens, living rooms and small offices across the country, an estimated 1 million data basers are transferring the contents of black books, file cards and shaggy-eared folders into their personal computers, cataloguing everything from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: How to Soup Up a Filing System | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

When the first chill sweeps across the tundra of northern Manitoba each year, the bears, in particular the big males, begin to think about their favorite winter activity, hunting fat seals on the ice floes of Hudson Bay. With unerring instinct, they begin congregating around the bay's southwestern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Plethora of Polar Bears | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

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