Word: glue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent Chamber of Commerce study concludes that the number of prostitutes ages 8 to 13 in Bogota has quintupled in the past seven years -- while government funding of programs to help youth in trouble has declined. Sandra Patricia is riddled with venereal disease; her favorite pastime is sniffing glue. "I know I'm sick," she moans, "and people treat me like dirt, and sometimes I'd just like...
...student concerns weren't enough, the College was also left to contend with system sabotage, exemplified last fall by vandals who damaged a card key validator by filling it with glue...
...University of Michigan indicates that drug use seems to be steadily declining among high school students but finds, disturbingly, that the opposite is true among eighth-graders. The results indicate that in 1992, 9.5% of eighth-graders (up from 9% in a similar survey in 1991) used inhalants -- glue, nitrous oxide, solvents and other such volatile substances; 7.2% (up from 6.2%) smoked marijuana or hashish, and 2.1% (up from 1.7%) of these 13-year-olds took LSD. The diminution of drug taking among older teenagers (the percentage of 12th- graders who had smoked marijuana, for example, fell from...
...result: paint without carcinogenic volatile organic compounds; carpeting that is dye-free, glue-free and 100% wool, with padding made from jute and animal hair; subfloors made from Homasote, a recycled-newspaper product, instead of formaldehyde-laden plywood; floor tiles fabricated from crushed light bulbs; a CFC-free insulation made from common minerals; and a reception desk built of maple and of mahogany that was harvested in a manner that does not destroy rain forests...
Instead, she said, the only legal way to ameliorate the problem is to discourage the pigeons from returning. Desperate exterminators have even used glue to trap one pigeon to the railing in order to warn away other birds...