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That may be a boon to many of the 22 million drug abusers and addicts in the U.S. Although it's difficult to put a price tag on the total impact of drug abuse, NIDA estimates it costs the U.S. $484 billion a year in health care costs, lost earnings, crime and accidents. Complicating the problem, addicts tend to abuse more than one substance at a time - two-thirds of cocaine addicts also use alcohol, for example - a potentially lethal combination that may be increasing in popularity. A 2006 University of Florida study found that deaths from cocaine overdose, which...
...hailed here as "a marker set down against the oblivion with which time threatens all human deeds" - and Thucydides, the earliest exponent of realpolitik, Burrow devotes the first third of his book to a long line of Greco-Roman historians. He goes on to discuss "the radical and pervasive" impact of the Bible on history - for example, in the writings of the 6th century French Bishop Gregory of Tours, whom he dubs "Trollope with blood." Equally intriguing is Burrow's discussion of the secular historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, a fabricator who claimed that his 12th century account of King Arthur...
...recruiting, though he notes that at one of the recruiting events at Harvard this past fall, a student in attendance did ask about UBS’ role in underwriting PetroChina.“We don’t believe that any of this negative publicity has had any significant impact on our recruiting,” he says. “We’ve had a very successful recruiting year, and our events at Harvard were very well attended.”Kreisberg points out that other popular employers, such as Google and Yahoo!, have similarly not been affected...
...book—an analysis of the cultural impact of the Civil War’s 600,000 casualties—is the latest work in a remarkably broad scholarly career that has stirred praise and some controversy in academia...
...Faust says “This Republic of Suffering,” was written in the same spirit even though it may not elicit the same kind of responses. The book uses soldiers’ letters to examine the impact that the omnipresence of death had on individuals and on the nation collectively...