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...many see benefits from legalization that go beyond easing the crime problem. Princeton Professor Ethan Nadelmann estimates that federal, state and local governments are spending around $8 billion a year on direct drug- enforcement activities and billions more for such indirect costs as care and feeding of imprisoned drug dealers (people convicted of drug-related crimes constitute more than one-third of all federal prisoners). Legalization not only would save these enormous expenditures but also could bring in billions more in new revenues if governments chose to tax the sale of newly legal drugs (as they surely would). Nadelmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...extensive preflight tests, Ethan Nadel, a physiologist at Yale Medical School, verified that the demands placed on the pilot -- the equivalent of running two marathons back to back -- would not exceed the limits of human endurance. Since the wingspan measures 112 ft. and the plane flies just 15 ft. above the ocean waves, even a second's pause would result in a quick dunking. To keep the human engine from sputtering, Nadel, with the Shaklee vitamin company, developed a lemon-flavored cocktail of energy-rich glucose, water and a blend of salts to nourish the pilot throughout the flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On The Wings of Mythology | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...Ethan Herschenfeld plays this galumphing giant (Hal Carter), who attracts the attention of Madge and Millie Owens. But the only attention he's likely to attract from the audience is bound to be negative. Herschenfeld's movements are stiff and graceless, and his voice wavers over important lines...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Out to Lunch | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...figured the Coop more directly affectsstudent's lives than any other organization exceptthe University itself," said Ethan A. Budin...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Coop Mails Ballots for Board | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

RAISING ARIZONA Nathan Arizona Jr., that is -- the infant kidnaped by a young couple who are aching to be parents. In this wonderfully bizarre romantic comedy, Auteurs Joel and Ethan Coen prove themselves Young Hollywood's last best hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '87: Cinema | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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