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...ones that do, like Pittsburgh, Pa., are reluctant to make the raw data public. "Get in the habit of reporting that, and you can create controversy," says Robert McNeilly Jr., the city's police chief. He says random quarter-to-quarter fluctuations in the data would produce misleading headlines, like RACIAL PROFILING ON THE RISE IN PITTSBURGH. McNeilly says a federal auditor has consistently found that the city's police stop minorities in "pretty close" proportion to their all-around presence in the population...
...hexamethonium, a compound not currently approved by the FDA for use in humans. In these cases, the FDA requires that researchers obtain the agency's approval before administering such compounds. But because of the huge number of academic trials and the accompanying paperwork, the FDA had got into the habit of quietly discouraging universities from applying for approval, assuming that safety issues could be dealt with by the universities. Then, in 1999, the feds abruptly cracked down, stopping human research at Duke University Medical Center. One infraction they cited: the improper recording of minutes of a meeting. Frustrated critics...
...about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand. Broken down into the individual pipe loads he prepares for foreigners, that nets him a profit of about $300?minus the 10 pipes a day he needs to feed his own habit. "Opium, opium," he calls out to foreigners who walk past his sugarcane juice stand. Anyone who tries to actually buy any juice is shunted away. The battered old cane press hasn't worked in years...
...Unfortunately Asia and Latin America have gotten into the habit of believing they are dependent on this trio for growth. They have largely accepted, albeit grudgingly, that the three have the right to control the global economic agenda, not least through the International Monetary Fund, an organization that never criticizes Alan Greenspan's money-printing excesses but rarely hesitates to publicly lecture Asian governments, even the prudent ones...
...office--that since January has operated largely on the principle that the less information given the press, the better. Since the Jeffords crisis, however, Hughes' team has become more helpful--both to reporters and to Republican staff on Capitol Hill. And the team has begun to rethink its habit of placing Bush in tightly controlled events designed to make him look presidential...