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...sprig of marijuana buds and points out the crystals of dried resin that sparkle like tiny diamonds in the flat winter sunlight. These crystals make the local pot, which has been perfected through indoor growing under virtual laboratory conditions, twice as potent as competing varieties from Northern California and Oregon and six times as strong as most common Colombian and Mexican products. "This," Emery says, smiling at the minty-smelling weed, "is the top of the market." Across town, Dave Williams, an investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees--but he's not smiling. "British Columbia," he says ruefully...
DOCTOR DEATH In Oregon, the only state that permits physician-assisted suicide, that option was chosen by 27 terminally ill patients last year, up from 16 in 1998. A new study finds that most of these suicides involved insured, well-educated and elderly cancer patients rather than the poor and depressed, as the law's critics feared. A survey of doctors, however, found that most patients who ask about suicide change their minds after getting enhanced pain treatment...
...Vegas. Communist banners will go up as Confederate flags go down in South Carolina and dogs will be banned for life from front yards in California. New Hampshire convicts will stamp "Mao was Right, We Were Wrong" instead of "Live Free or Die" on state license plates and Oregon students will wear USPS uniforms to school, carry books from class to class in mail sacks and call for a ride home from thirty-three cent pay phones. Only a scattered band of resistors will remain of the once-mighty...
...massacre at Columbine High School and other school shootings in Oregon and Alabama cry out for introspection that should end in action, not argument. Children in the United States are nine times more likely to be killed by gunfire than what the combined probability is in the next top 25 industrial nations. Thirteen American children die in gun-related incidents daily. It is time to take decisive steps to curb this trend before more of our children are caught in the crossfire...
Last night, the tough play of the Harvard men's volleyball team (6-1, 4-0 EIVA) made the Oregon Trail feel like a walk in the park for the Sacred Heart Pioneers (6-9, 2-4). The Pioneers fell to the Crimson at the Malkin Athletic Center...