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...enjoyed a brief spurt of mainstream use in the '80s, before the government outlawed it in 1985. Until recently, it remained common only on the margins of society--in clubland, in gay America, in lower Manhattan. But in the past year or so, ecstasy has returned to the heartland. Established drug dealers and mobsters have taken over the trade, and they are meeting the astonishing demand in places like Flagstaff, Ariz., where "Katrina," a student at Northern Arizona University who first took it last summer, can now buy it easily; or San Marcos, Texas, a town of 39,000 where...
That is not enough for Tom and Bill. Late last week Clinton flew to Minnesota and Ohio to tout the bill's benefits for manufacturers and farmers in the heartland. For his part, DeLay has been seen, dripping wet, just out of the shower, delivering his China pitch to a colleague in the locker room at the House gym. "He's quite effective at getting votes," Clinton conceded recently. This time he is hoping DeLay succeeds...
...desperation to free its 347 peacekeeping troops held hostage in Sierra Leone may undermine the larger objective of ending that unhappy country's malaise. Even as the U.N. military commander on the ground was reportedly planning an offensive into the rebel heartland Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's envoy in Freetown urged restraint in counterattacks against the rebels for fear of endangering the hostages. Liberia's President Charles Taylor, a longtime ally and patron of the Revolutionary United Front rebels, had over the weekend secured the release of some 139 peacekeepers after being urged to intercede...
...Laramie Project has provided catharsis for a wounded town, but will it be a fulfilling experience for audiences far removed from the events? Kaufman thinks so. "The play," he says, "tells the story of a New York theater company traveling to the heartland to listen to American voices." It was, for both actors and audience, worth the trip...
...industrial chemicals called PCBs as do Great Lakes bald eagles.) The biggest sources of coastal pollution are waste from farm animals, fertilizers and human sewage. They can spawn red tides and other harmful algal blooms that rob oxygen from the water, killing sea life. The Mississippi River, whose fine heartland silt once built fertile delta wetlands, now builds in the Gulf of Mexico a spreading dead zone--almost devoid of marine life--the size of New Jersey. Improving sewage treatment and cleaning up the runoff from farms will be increasingly vital to preserving coastal water quality...