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...drugs sold in the U.S., derives from the coca plant which grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. For centuries, highland Indians have chewed leaves of the coca plant as a mild stimulant, to stave off hunger and drowsiness. Although this use continues, Bolivia now produces four times more coca leaf than can be consumed locally...
...farther and farther into the country and still hadn't reached our destination after 40 minutes. I couldn't imagine I'd be doing the reverse of this on foot. Once in Hopkinton, we were engulfed by a sea of runners--thousands of them, many of them wearing plastic leaf bags to keep warm in the bitter wind. A visitor from outer space would have felt right at home...
...relationship." The pamphlet features a series of questions. For example, "Are cigarettes with low 'tar' and nicotine 'safer' for smokers?" The answer begins, "Cigarettes have never been proven to be unsafe," and "What about the alleged 'right' to breathe smoke-free air?" As this Tom Paine of flue-cured leaf points out, "the issue really involve[s] personal freedom...
Some of the designs, ordered by parents to commemorate young children, are heartrending. One pictures a leaf blowing off the tree of life. Adults often choose occupational symbols: a sewing machine, a policeman's badge, a B-52 in remembrance of a Boeing employee who was loyal to the bitter end. There are also golfers, fishermen, a teen-ager's customized 1965 Mustang complete to the license plate BAD NUZ, and a skier taking off on a jump, above the legend BILL WENT FOR IT. One woman had her stone engraved with four aces over the Christian symbol...
...forms of workfare have been tried before, with limited success. Reagan cites California's Community Work Experience Program, which he claims put 75,000 people to work during his tenure as Governor. Yet records show that only about 9,600 welfare recipients received jobs. "It was essentially a leaf-raking operation," says California Legislative Analyst Tom Dooley. The program was allowed to expire...