Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they dismantled the Canadiens and took on the Garden Salad Devils (what else do their road uniforms look like?) from, appropriately, the Garden State. Now my basic conclusion from these weeks of NHL study is that hockey has the potential to be a great game. The action is fast and exciting, the play is of uniformly high quality and there's even artistry to match Micheal Jordan on occasion...
...powerful cocaine derivative has virtually shredded what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The driving force behind the drug epidemic is not just the highly addictive nature of crack; many young hustlers never touch the stuff. They are drawn by the more enticing lure of fast money. "They can make $1,000 a week dealing," says Blair Miller of the Adolescent Dual Diagnosis Unit in Detroit's Samaritan Health Center. "These kids have no other skills. It's very hard to resist." In some cities, the crack trade may be one of the bigger job programs...
...other fathers hauled out the school yearbook and demanded that the kids show us who was doing drugs," says Eric's dad. "They told us it would be easier to show who wasn't. My God, there are 2,000 students at that school, and their fast-track, two-income parents don't have any idea what their kids are doing...
...real heroes of the fight against drugs are the teenagers who resist the ghetto's fast track -- who live at home, persevere in school and juggle their studies with a low-paying job. The wonder is that there are so many of them. "Most of our youngsters are not involved in crack," says Frances Pitts, chief judge of the juvenile courts in Wayne County, Mich. "Most aren't running around with guns. Most aren't killing people. Most are doing very well -- against great odds." These are the youngsters who fit Jesse Jackson's words: "You were born...
...source of the windfalls: Japan. Long criticized for its tightfistedness toward the world's poorer countries, Japan is now second only to the U.S. in handing out development assistance, and it is closing fast. According to the latest figures of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, in 1986 Tokyo gave $5.6 billion, vs. Washington's $9.6 billion. This year Japan has authorized more foreign aid than the U.S. ($10 billion vs. $9.2 billion). Japan has also begun to recycle some of its growing financial reserves throughout the developing world: at the 1987 Venice summit of industrialized nations...