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...produced 520 metric tons of cocaine last year, three times what the agency had previously calculated. Then last week, Administration drug czar Barry McCaffrey made public the other CIA bombshell: Colombia's opium-poppy cultivation also jumped 23% in 1999. All told, says McCaffrey, 80% of the cocaine and heroin entering the U.S. comes from or through Colombia, causing 52,000 deaths here each year, along with $110 billion in health-care, crime and lost-productivity costs...
...future." What DiCaprio was originating in his next phase was rambunctious guys with no future at all. Rimbaud: poisoned by infection. Kid, the gunpoke in The Quick and the Dead: shot dead by his dastardly dad. Jim, the Catholic schoolboy in The Basketball Diaries: nearly kills himself with heroin. At least these misfits courted disaster. The only sin of the noble DiCaprio hero in Romeo+ Juliet and Titanic is to be caught in the wrong place with the girl he loves. Has any teen idol played so many characters who end up dead? (DiCaprio's double role...
...Habit Patterns, Barbara sobs because she's a slob ("You make a pretty picture," the catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly becomes a heroin addict. What could be spookier? A Date with Your Family, in which five pod people purporting to be a suburban family sit down to dinner. "Pleasant, unemotional conversation," we are told, "helps digestion." Hey, what is this? Stalin's Russia...
There is also a threat to regional and global security posed by the Taliban regime. Americans have already become exasperated with the rulers of Kabul over the hospitality they have extended to the notorious Osama Bin Laden. Afghanistan has become by far the leading producer of the heroin sold in Europe. Despite the Koranic prohibitions against drug use the Taliban has embraced the trade, and taxes on its production keeps their government solvent. Many of the Central Asian republics of the former U.S.S.R. rightly fear that the Taliban will try to spread its influence into their Muslim populations...
...development that could give new meaning to the term "experiential learning," a number of American universities are under investigation for misuse of heroin, cocaine, LSD and marijuana provided for research studies. According to the Associated Press, the Drug Enforcement Administration is looking into the research programs of at least a dozen of the 535 universities currently authorized to use the whole spectrum of illegal substances in controlled laboratory tests. Federal officials say the government, which provides $250 million for universities to buy the drugs, doesn't do much to find out what's happening inside the research facilities. Whether this...