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First, a science primer for those of you not up to speed on your pharmaceuticals. Cocaine and crack are two forms of the same drug. Crack is simply powder cocaine mixed with baking soda and water and heated. Therefore, anyone who possesses cocaine has the capability to turn it into crack. Next, the economics. Powder cocaine is usually sold in gram packages for between $65 and $100. Rocks of crack come in smaller, more affordable packages that cost $5 to $20. Crack is predominantly a drug of the inner city; cocaine is more prevalent among the middle and upper classes...
...criminal consequences. Under federal law, if you are caught with 5 grams of crack, you will, at minimum, be slapped with a five-year penalty. You must be caught with at least 500 grams of powder cocaine to earn a comparable sentence. Whether intended or not, the effect of this 100-to-1 ratio is that "it punishes poor people and people of color more heavily,'' says Nkechi Taifa of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Leavenworth; had he sold cocaine instead, his sentence would be closer to two years. The commission's bottom line: "Issues of 'fairness' or 'just punishment' result when relatively low-level crack retailers receive higher sentences than the wholesale-level cocaine dealer from whom the crack seller originally purchased the powder to make the crack...
...equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program is not an acceptable substitute: "For women to be leaders of men, they can't learn such skills in the absence of men on the powder-puff campus of Converse." TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson concurs, saying "I don't think it can be separate but equal. Generally, freedom of association should allow you to choose with whom you associate. But in this case taxpayer dollars are involved, and it makes it more problematic...
...much of his work, and in the end about 500 pieces have survived, including drawings-not much for a man who began to paint in the early 1920s. And since he was a very uneven artist, their quality varies widely. He cared absolutely nothing for permanence; he used cheap powder colors on cardboard most of the time, thus bequeathing a nightmare to museum conservators. Only the actual process of painting, of resolving the image and getting it to stand alone in its own space, mattered to him, and after that was done he would often leave the picture...