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DROP IN DRUG USE According to a government survey, fewer teens used illegal drugs in 1998 than in the previous year, a welcome dip after higher rates during most of the 1990s. Older teens showed the deepest declines, with 26.8% reporting having used an illegal substance in the month before the survey, in contrast to 30.7% last year. While the report probably underestimates actual drug use, officials view the drop, along with relatively steady rates of drug use over the past few years, as a sign that teens are beginning to heed antidrug messages...
Theater owners will endure a dip in popcorn sales. During this film, almost nobody leaves. Except to be sick. Some viewers have vomited during particularly tense scenes. Others get motion sickness from the jerky camera style. At the picture's climax, a Chicago woman let out a full-throttle scream. She was still shaking as the lights came up. "I'm too upset to talk," she said as a friend comforted her with...
...Since the 16th century, the job has passed from father to eldest son. Devotees scramble to touch his feet, traders whisper their business hopes, and students seek his blessing before final exams. As a child he learned the sacred chants and rites--including the importance of a daily dip in the Ganges, the river that Hindus worship for its purity. Mishra cups his hands to scoop up water and lifts it to his lips. But unlike the ancestors who began the ritual, he skips a step. He does not drink the water...
That she does--desperately. The Indian government launched a program to restore the river in 1986. In Varanasi--where 60,000 people gather daily, most for a holy dip--pumps were set up to divert sewage to a new treatment plant downstream. The pumps often stop because of electricity shortages, however, and the treatment facility is ineffective...
Rival campaigns laughed when GEORGE W. BUSH's campaign paid $43,500 in a silent auction to rent prime space at next month's Iowa straw poll. "They took the bait," chuckled an adviser to Lamar Alexander. But Bush is laughing now. Rather than dip into his campaign chest, he had six donors cover the tab. Too clever, says Steve Forbes' team, which charges that the end run is a violation of campaign laws that prohibit individuals from giving more than $1,000 to a candidate. The Bush folks say that since the money went to the Iowa Republican Party...