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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials hope the drug can be controlled by limiting the manufacture of Talwin. A pessimistic view comes from St. Louis Police Narcotics Chief Charles McCrary. Says he: "I'm afraid that when high-grade white heroin, which is beginning to reach the East Coast cities from Southwest Asia, starts coming in, the junkies will go back to that...
...floor, the kind they put out at skating rinks to keep blades from scratching the linoleum, but here they serve to keep barbells from crashing through the floor. Inside, everything is sweaty, and but for the air-conditioning it would be sweatier still. I knew Bob in grade school, said "hi" when we passed in the hall in high school. He was a funny, pleasant guy, not really smart, thin and wiry, not big enough for most sports, but tough. Mostly he liked to horse around. Not anymore. Now he lives in the gym, with twice-a-day workouts, long...
Even before he went to Viet Nam, Robert Muller, 35, knew he stood a good chance of becoming a casualty. At the Marine platoon leaders' class in Quantico, Va., he learned that during World War II, 85% of all company-grade officers in the Corps were killed or wounded. Crippling injury, not death, was what most worried Bobby and his buddies. "I remember saying that if I lost a leg, I would rather be killed. As to the possibility of being paralyzed, well, that was not even open for discussion." Confined to a wheelchair for the rest...
...than six years ago. Boston and Chicago have made similar claims about improved test results, and last week the State of New Jersey joined in too. And according to New York City school officials, more than half the public school students there now read at or above their present grade level -for the first time in ten years...
Improvement is generally attributed to increased parental involvement and classroom attention to basic skills. But how real is the progress? Bearing such nicknames and acronyms as CAT, ITBS, CTBS and METRO,* a bewildering battery of tests annually churns out statistics in "percentiles," "grade levels" or "stanines" (a scoring system based on nine that occupies only a single column on a computer punch card). Quite often, these obscure as much as they reveal. A month after New York school officials had boasted about the big jump in average test scores, parents of more than a fifth of the city...