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...Today, there are few living witnesses to the devastating effects of smoking opium, the resin of the same poppy plants from which heroin is derived. In the early 1950s, newly communist China took draconian steps to rid its population of addicts, but the vice lingered for another decade in the expatriate-Chinese communities of Southeast Asia. Thailand was the last place in the world with licensed opium dens. In 1959 those licenses were revoked; the Heng Lak Hung on Bangkok's Charoeng Krung Road?said to be the world's largest opium den, with more than 5,000 users...
...remarks on Tuesday, Friedman was sympathetic to the administration’s desire to get rid of the logistical problems of shopping period, but he resolutely defended the need to maintain student flexibility. “Just like Iraq, this seems like a situation where nobody wants this to happen, but we discuss it as if it were inevitable,” he said. But by speaking out, he and his nine colleagues helped to make the passage of this proposal anything but certain. Now the academic community as a whole must rally behind these 10 courageous professors...
...Once it happens,” Chopra says, “it will never go back. There’s some disorder when there’s shopping period, but getting rid of that disorder for a few lectures is not worth...
Bush's prediction that getting rid of Saddam would energize the Middle East peace process may be even more over-reaching. While Iraq's despot has rewarded the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, that money is hardly a significant factor in their enduring conflict with Israel. "When the dust settles on the war," says Richard Murphy, a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, "they still have claims against each other they are not willing to compromise...
...nine years with modemmaker U.S. Robotics, outside Chicago, industry cocktail parties, at which people seemed intent on bragging their way up the corporate food chain, made her queasy. "I once read that the secret to networking was to enter a crowded room with 50 business cards and get rid of them in an hour. That made my stomach turn," says the unpretentious Ryan. "For me, it would just be wasting cards...