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...York City's Spanish Harlem, the highs come cheap. To create a "blunt," teenagers slice open a cigar and mix the tobacco with marijuana. To enhance the hit, they fashion "B-40s" by dipping the cigar in malt liquor. In Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults at a rave party in an abandoned house -- the rage among middle-class youths everywhere with money to burn -- and their rich assortment of hooch: pot, uppers, downers, heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer...
...canals. The skeletal remains of another was found stuffed beneath a rotting mattress near Kennedy Airport. (Investigators located the remains only after Rifkin told them where to look.) Suddenly, a perpetrator had emerged for unsolved mysteries -- a body found two years ago in a steamer trunk adrift in the Harlem River; a torso and dismembered limbs discovered last summer floating off Manhattan. A bloodied wheelbarrow and a chainsaw found in Rifkin's garage suggested macabre labors...
Meier serves as principal of Central Park East Secondary School, a public high school in New York City. She is famous for founding a group of public alternative elementary schools in East Harlem, New York...
Powell's story is one that has been retold many times. Born in Harlem on April 5, 1937, he grew up in the South Bronx and graduated from the City College of New York in 1958. Afterwards, he became a second lieutenant in the Army through ROTC...
...issues at stake were not always clear--at Columbia the protest was sparked by two factors: the university's plans to build a new gymnasium in a public park in Harlem, and the university's participation in the Institute for Defense Analysis, a Pentagon consortium...