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Illicit drug use by teenagers last year was 3% lower than in 1985. The ! number of students using cocaine showed a modest overall decline, though frequency of use -- especially of crack -- has grown. For legal drugs, the numbers are more disturbing. Nearly two-thirds reported prior-month use of alcohol, and 19% admitted to being daily cigarette smokers -- a small drop for the smokers and virtually no change for the drinkers...
...Prior to the vote, committee member David H. Hirsch, a professor of English, wrote a memo to other EPC members in which he lambasted the proposed concentration...
...Intelligence Oversight Act requires prior notice of a covert action or, in particularly sensitive cases, notification "in timely fashion." that was generally thought to mean a few hours or days, not eleven months. But Congress is unlikely to pursue a legal challenge in this instance, partly because it is not eager to make an issue of its own impotence...
Moreover, Regan and others have contradicted some portions of McFarlane's story, most notably his insistence that the President gave prior approval to Israeli sales of arms to Iran in 1985. McFarlane was wounded by what he took to be implications that he was lying to protect himself. Whether for physical reasons or because of internalized stress or both, McFarlane suffered worsening back spasms this winter. The future seemed to hold only increasing strain. McFarlane confided to friends that he expected a "long, difficult spring" of being questioned on TV at one congressional hearing after another, and then seeing...
...though he does not believe he used it in Waters' era, and neither the 49ers nor the local parks department can confirm it was ever used). Milorganite, made by the Milwaukee metropolitan sewerage district, is a heat- dried residue of sewage sludge and is used on lawns nationwide. Prior to 1978, it had a high content of cadmium, a heavy metal...