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...reasons for such an inconsistency are clear, such as the nasty habit of Peruvian drug police to end up in vats of hydrochloric acid in the Upper Huallaga Valley and the tendency of entire Latin American governments to be completely and totally corrupted by drug lords...
People of all ages are getting the moviegoing habit this summer. Over Memorial Day weekend, Sylvester Stallone went sky-high with Cliffhanger, but that was just a sneak preview of the sweltering summer box office. In June, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, which will soon become the second highest- grossing film in history (after Spielberg's E.T.), got everybody into the theaters. Viewers liked what they saw and kept coming back. Sleepless in Seattle enticed the cooing couples. The Firm, In the Line of Fire and Rising Sun proved there was a huge July audience for old-fashioned suspense films...
There were, however, a couple of things in the book that were unworthy of thought, even by the modest standards of airplane reads. One of these was Crichton's habit of stopping every 20 pages or so to give a little lecture on the evil genius of Japanese corporate culture. The other was a mystery about an American girl found dead on the boardroom table at a Japanese conglomerate's American headquarters. This plot was more intricate than it had to be because the author was determined to show that there was nothing in American life that the wily Asiatics...
...turn toward heroin is coupled with a sharp recognition among youthful abusers of the dangers of crack. Anthony M., 13, who is detoxifying from a marijuana habit at the Daytop Village Bronx Outreach Center in New York City, estimates that 20 or so of his 200 classmates use heroin or other drugs, but among them, only one goes in for crack. "That kid wanted others to do it too," he says, "but the other kids were like, 'Nah,' because some of the kids, their parents had died because of crack...
...National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: "Certainly this is encouraging enough to pursue other studies with larger numbers of people to see if the effect holds up." Already, the Rockefeller group has launched a second study of about 40 people. Unfortunately, the AIDS virus has a habit of evading most of the roadblocks scientists...