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...while members of the class of '69 occasionally return to Harvard, ROTC hasn't--at least not in its original form. After the turbulence subsided, the Faculty ruled out the possibility of a club for ROTC because it felt a club would be "just a fig leaf apparatus to cover the actual group," according to Wilcox...
...base extraction kits. Although not practiced by most cocaine users, free-basing is disturbingly popular, especially in California. Its toll is high: the risk of drug dependence is vastly greater than with snorting, and no less than with injecting. As cocaine is just one distilled component of the coca leaf, cocaine free-base comes from carrying the refining process one ill-advised step further: the active drug is "freed" from its "base," a hydrochloride salt. Extraction techniques involve dissolving the cocaine and adding chemical catalysts-sodium hydroxide and ether or, more prudently, baking soda-that cause the free-base...
...doctors stop treating terminally ill or permanently unconscious patients? Which forms of treatment or care can properly be denied to a patient? May the cost in money and resources be considered? Moreover, who has the right to make these decisions? "We are facing a moral vacuum," says Dr. Alexander Leaf of Harvard Medical School. "There are enormous disparities in views on whether you withhold certain therapies or do everything possible to keep a person 'alive...
...nation's highest post. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, surmounted that obstacle last November, when he was chosen by the Communist Party's Central Committee to succeed Brezhnev. Andropov was relieved of his job as KGB chief six months earlier and moved to the party Secretariat, but the bureaucratic fig leaf deceived...
...Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Buscaglia...