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...from Kilimanjaro is now back in Columbus, Ohio, along with numerous other specimens wrested from earlier expeditions to the impressively high mountains that ring the tropics. During the next five years, Thompson plans to retrieve still more. If it weren't for his work, the world might forfeit a natural library filled with priceless archives. For like the rings of long-lived trees and the accreted layers of massive corals, ice encodes surprisingly precise records of swings in temperature and precipitation over the centuries. Once that ice starts to melt, however, those records might as well have been written...
...UNDP estimates that the per capita cost of annual treatment for infected Africans is likely to be $1,100. That includes $600 for antiretroviral drugs and an additional $500 in other medical costs. The $600 drug figure won't be reduced much, even if, as is hoped, drug companies forfeit their patents on these medications. Though that would save precious dollars on royalties, the cost of producing the drugs will remain high. It's like Nestle giving away the recipe for Toll House chocolate-chip cookies: someone still has to pay for the ingredients...
...initiatives that loosened tough drug laws. While Congress shows little interest in repealing stiff federal "mandatory minimum" drug sentences, some 700 drug courts have been created or are being planned by various states to shepherd narcotics abusers through treatment rather than prison. Utah and Oregon curtailed police powers to forfeit the assets of suspected drug users. Nine states have legalized medical marijuana, including Oregon, Maine and Nevada...
...McKeon believes that while students generally have a right to privacy about internal college disciplinary proceedings, they forfeit this right to some extent when they commit a crime on campus...[T]he public has a legitimate right to know the results of disciplinary proceedings relating to school safety," Foy writes...
...Drug-Free Student Loans Act, a provision of the Higher Education Act of 1998, mandates that applicants and students convicted of drug offenses forfeit eligibility for federal financial aid. The provision stipulates that first-time drug offenders are ineligible for one year, second-time offenders for two years and third-time offenders indefinitely...