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Cocaine is no longer just a curious upper-class kink. During the past two years or so, the number of Americans who have used the drug climbed from 15 million to 20 million and is rising still: every day some 5,000 neophytes sniff a line of coke for the...
Interest in possible viral causes of cancer peaked in the 1960s, when various animal studies suggested that viruses could cause turnors. But apart from rare correlations (such as that between the Herpes simplex II virus and cervical cancer in women), researchers could not establish a general cause and effect relationship...
Perhaps calamity provides the only incentive for such a journey. In the space of a single day, William Least Heat Moon (William Trogden) lost his job as a college English teacher and found out that his wife--from whom he was separated--had a new boyfriend. That was calamity enough...
By midsummer, business failures had escalated alarmingly, the stock market had slumped to its lowest level in more than two years and fears of international financial collapse were spreading. Against this backdrop, Volcker hinted that he was prepared to act more flexibly, to permit monetary growth "somewhat above" the announced...
The group's popularity peaked in early 1981, after Bobby Sands and other I.R.A. members in Maze Prison went on a hunger strike in a bid to be classified as political prisoners. But by year's end, after Sands and nine other strikers had died, sympathy for the...