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...government paints a much brighter picture. According to the 1992 Household Survey on Drug Abuse, released last month by the Department of Health and Human Services, the nationwide pattern of drug abuse is in decline. The study shows an 11% dip in illicit drug use by Americans 12 years or older, from 12.8 million in 1991 to 11.4 million in 1992. The drop is pronounced in all age groups except those 35 and over, who use drugs at a rate comparable to 1979 levels. Yet the number of hard-core abusers remains unchanged. And a smorgasbord of nouvelle intoxicants...
...debate is all the more vexing because it involves trying to outguess Mother Nature -- a futile endeavor, as evidenced by the wild unlikelihood of devastating rain in July, which nonetheless happened. The consistent pattern of late 20th century flooding in the U.S. has been a decline in deaths proportionate to the area inundated, but a startling rise in property damage, due to increased building and farming on the floodplains and inflation in dollar values. Beyond that, all is as uncertain as the exact height of the flood crest and the precise time it will pass St. Louis. A 1955 book...
Weather is almost impossible to predict more than a week or two in advance. But when it comes to climate -- the long-term weather averages that make the U.S. temperate and the tropics torrid -- scientists are confident that they understand the overall pattern. Over the past million years or so, the planet has swung between ice ages lasting on the order of 100,000 years and interglacial periods of about 10,000. During each phase, the climate is pretty steady. It's the stability of the current interglacial epoch, which began 10,000 years ago, that made the invention...
Director and writer Sally Potter makes quick and clean scene cuts into an art. An indecipherable pattern prepares the audience to be on their toes as well as to sit back with their own expectations. Especially well-done are the changes in time that can be as subtle as a run through a hedge maze or as blatant as the date and subject flashing across the screen...
...clients engaged in a normal and expected trading pattern," Renauld said. "That tactic is called hedging and is quite a normal occurence in the investment field...