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...Pollin' Along: The Crimson (14-6 overall) is ranked eighth in the nation by the NCAA Ice Hockey Committee. The ranking did not include Harvard's loss to Boston College in the consolation game of the Beanpot Monday night at Boston Garden...
...Pollin' Along: Harvard (7-1) is ranked sixth in KBJR-TV's USA Coaches' Poll. ECAC rivals St. Lawrence (9-2) and Colgate (9-1) fill the fifth and eight spots, respectively. The Larries even copped one first place vote...
Moreover, from society's standpoint, cocaine has a special perniciousness. "It takes a disproportionately high toll," says Dr. William Pollin, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "because it is largely used by people who are most likely to have an impact on their environment. Think of the neurosurgeon operating on your child, or the mechanic working on the 747 you are taking...
Medical research is still sketchy. The commonest cocaine-related ailment, a breakdown of nasal membrane, "is the least of one's worries," according to Dr. Pollin of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Chronic cocaine use kills the appetite and so regularly results in severe weight loss. In a three-year study, Gerald Rosen, a Duke University pharmacologist, has found that metabolized cocaine destroys dangerous numbers of liver cells. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, among other places, have seen evidence of serious lung damage in free-basers...
...letter to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the federal agency that in 1978 requested and funded the study, Press contended that the committee had "insufficient" data and was rendering "a judgment so value laden that it should have been left to the political process." NIDA Director Dr. William Pollin was "not pleased" either. Pointing to recent surveys that indicate high school seniors are turning away from pot, he said it would be "a terrible mistake and a public health tragedy [to do] anything that suggests a greater societal acceptance of the use of marijuana, particularly by young people...