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...Bennett's deputy drug czar in the first Bush Administration. When George W. appointed him, the President told the czar to watch the movie Traffic as a way to understand the problem. The czar, who told Time he has never smoked pot, believes marijuana to be not only a gateway drug but also incredibly detrimental in its own right--causing driving accidents, domestic violence, health risks and crippling addiction. He thinks the legalization argument is absurd, especially when proposed by libertarian Republicans who are so doctrinaire he finds them to be outside his party. "This is great talk...
...Western Ave. as the gateway to the Allston campus of the future,” says Susan K. Keller, director of residential real estate for Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE...
...explains that his business enterprises were a gateway to his desire to work in human rights and the arts...
...Though they serve as a gateway to the U.S. tech economy, some corners of the West Coast ports still operate as if they're stuck in the early 1900s, costing an estimated $1 billion in inefficiencies each year. Many clerks carry clipboards, tracking transactions with grease pencil and paper. When they use computers, they usually insist on re-entering all data themselves, even though it could easily be transmitted electronically from other ports. Modern ports in Rotterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore move three times as many trucks through their terminals every hour as their West Coast counterparts...
...Russian military operation to break Georgia's grip on the Kodori Valley. Several pieces of Georgia have been nibbled away by Russian-backed separatist insurgencies since Georgia broke from the Soviet Union. The most independently-minded region is Abkhazia, to which the Georgian-held Kodori valley is the strategic gateway. And Georgian officials fear that if Russian pressure forces their troops out of the valley in the coming days and weeks, that could bring down Shevardnadze's government in Tbilisi...