Word: illicitness
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...findings were grim: 20-year-olds who?d had DARE classes were no less likely to have smoked marijuana or cigarettes, drunk alcohol, used "illicit" drugs like cocaine or heroin, or caved in to peer pressure than kids who?d never been exposed to DARE. But that wasn?t all. "Surprisingly," the article states, "DARE status in the sixth grade was negatively related to self-esteem at age 20, indicating that individuals who were exposed to DARE in the sixth grade had lower levels of self-esteem 10 years later." Another study, performed at the University of Illinois, suggests some...
...enchanted passersby used to the solitary products of the nation's one-child policy. Each Sunday, the Morrisons traveled to the Wuchang Protestant Church and joined dozens of Chinese to listen to the word of God as sanctioned by the Chinese state. While other Christians spread their message through illicit underground church meetings held in basements and anterooms, the Morrisons preferred to attend one of the seven officially registered churches available to Wuhan's 7 million citizens. "We want to work within the boundaries of Chinese law," says Valori. "We know we must honor authority...
...latent menace, what happened at that army camp on the Thai-Malaysian border is mundanely commonplace. In Thailand and Cambodia scores of illicit arms exchanges happen every day, some of them for as little as one or two pistols, others for crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region...
...their way onto CNN because they are unspectacular compared to the short bursts of violence. Nonetheless, these events affect Palestinian life just as much as the dramatic scenes that make the news. The Palestinians live in constant fury that their combination of everyday inconvenience and widespread trauma seems to illicit no response from the outside world...
...disservice to the many pain patients taking OxyContin. The problems of drug addiction and the diversion of opioids do exist. However, they should not prevent physicians from prescribing medications such as OxyContin to the 99% of legitimate pain patients who need it. The solution to the problem of illicit use is improved dialogue among doctors, politicians, and state and federal regulators to educate all in the proper use of pain medications. HOWARD A. HEIT, M.D. McLean...