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...interested, you can also trace the history of cocaine through the ages, from its beginnings as a treat for the royalty of the Andean Indians to its role as a "wonder drug" and its infamous inclusion in the formula for Coca-Cola...
Rafah sits along the border with Egypt, so Palestinians dig tunnels to smuggle in cigarettes, hashish, baby formula--and arms. Israeli troops try to find the tunnels and shut them down. To divert the soldiers while the smugglers dig, Palestinians launch nightly assaults on Termite from Block O. Israel, in turn, tries to make Termite safer by bulldozing nearby homes, like Najjar...
Other critics point out that U.S. steel producers have enjoyed varying degrees of import protection for decades. If tariffs and quotas were a formula for success, U.S. mills should already be world beaters. Instead of investing in new equipment and improving worker efficiency, too many U.S. mills and their unions have used artificially high steel prices as an invitation to pocket more in profits, pay and benefits than their competitors abroad--or their customers at home--have done. "Between 1972 and 1981, when import controls were severe, steel wages rose 179% while productivity declined," Goodrich and Gary Hufbauer, also...
...boomers take it for granted they will reshape the world to fit their needs. "If they think of retirement at all, they think of it as the next phase in their lives rather than stopping." Though My Generation editor in chief Betsy Carter, 56, says the magazine has no formula, most covers feature graying celebrities like Jeff Bridges, 51, and Sissy Spacek, 52. September's issue offered suggestions on how to tell your kids not to take the drugs you did yourself. December's looked at once violent Weather Underground members who came out of hiding in the 1980s...
...success against two skiers who had proved themselves in international competition with nine world and World Cup championships between them was all the more surprising, since she had never won even a single major international competition. Maybe that's the answer: not winning lesser races could be the surefire formula for Olympic downhill golds...