Word: pina
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This book contains, among many other wonderful things, the greatest poem ever written about spring break, which begins, "I'm sixteen in the Bahamas. A drunk girl/ on a balcony in a sundress/ with a pina colada." Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday--making macaroni and cheese, getting pulled over for speeding--and the eternal, the plainspoken and the lyrical, the comfortable and the abyss of loss that lies just beneath it: "All morning I try to kill a fly in the kitchen,/ but it isn't ready...
...change in the heroin trade in late 2000 and early 2001 was as sudden as it was unexpected. Pina Bampi no longer uses heroin, but she remembers the desperation on the streets of Footscray, an inner suburb of Melbourne, when supply of the drug simply dried up. "People were so panicked, so worried about getting sick (from withdrawal)," Bampi says. "It lasted for three or four months, but to us that was forever." Though heroin is more available now, the ripple effects of the drought continue to be felt, most noticeably in national overdose-death rates, which have plunged since...
...seen in Victoria in 1995, and Paul Dietze, head of the epidemiology unit at Turning Point, one of Australia's leading drug and alcohol agencies, says it's difficult to know where heroin use is heading: "We might be just in the trough of a cycle at the moment." Pina Bampi could easily have been one of those statistics, and many of the 33-year-old's friends still use the drug every day. Bampi used heroin for seven years, during which time she traveled to Israel for rapid detoxification. Three years ago, when she became pregnant, she joined...
...Pina Bampi tried ice and knows many who now can't give it up. "Ice is horrible, horrible," she says. "People are different when they use it - it does something to your mind." A decade ago at one clinic in Adelaide, 80% of patients were being treated for heroin; now just 30% are, while half are amphetamine users. University of Adelaide pharmacology and addictions expert Professor Jason White, who works with the clinic, says abuse of prescription opiates like morphine has also become more of a problem. In central Melbourne, where Lindsay Bent's paramedic team is being trained...
...saying no to the invasion of Iraq, pushing for E.U. accession, and being targeted by terrorists. Deadly bombings last November dented the facade of Istanbul, the city where East meets West, and led to tight security in advance of this month's NATO summit. But to modern dance legend Pina Bausch, this ancient city beside the Bosphorus remains a place of mystery and movement, gypsies, drinkers and steamy Turkish baths. In Nefes (Breath), a show that runs until the end of June at Paris' Théâtre de la Ville, before moving on to Berlin and Tokyo, the German...