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...disappointed by the way you trivialized the drug war as a key issue before the "shadow conventions" organized by Arianna Huffington [NATION, July 31]. Since 1980, while the number of violent offenders sent to prison has doubled, the number of drug offenders imprisoned has increased elevenfold. In 1998, 1.5 million people were arrested for drug offenses. More than half a million of those arrests were for marijuana possession. Plenty of people other than Huffington care about this issue. VINCENT SCHIRALDI, DIRECTOR Justice Policy Institute Washington...
...contains stories about the future as well as the past. Among the genes are clear messages about what will happen to your body as you age, a few of which we can already read. There is a gene, for example, that can alter your susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease elevenfold, depending on whether its 334th letter...
...incorporating the game into their curriculums. Chess-in-the-Schools, the largest program, teaches the game to more than 36,000 students in 160 schools in New York City. Meanwhile, the U.S. Chess Federation, the governing body for all tournament play, has 42,000 junior members--an elevenfold increase since 1989. "Years back, people who played chess were considered nerdy," says Barbara DeMaro, a spokeswoman for the federation. "But now chess is cool." Says Brian Hawkins, director of the Harlem Chess Center: "Once more people started playing, it became more acceptable...
Direct-mail advertisers are worried about the sudden desire among consumers to cut down on junk mail. More than 1 million people, an elevenfold increase over last summer, have signed up for the post office's preference service, which eliminates many third-class and sales mailings. The Direct Marketing Association blames the backlash on the 1989 book 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth. The best seller's No. 1 recommendation: get rid of unnecessary mail. "If only 100,000 people stopped their junk mail," the book claims, "we could save about 150,000 trees every year...
From 1982 to 1986, Saatchi & Saatchi revenues increased more than elevenfold, from $62 million to $697 million. In 1986, with the $450 million purchase of the Ted Bates agency, the brothers reached their avowed goal: Saatchi & Saatchi was the world's biggest ad firm. By last year, their client billings had reached $13.5 billion (runner-up Interpublic billed $8.4 billion), and the company had offices in 58 countries...