Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, the judge found marijuana useful in relieving nausea induced by chemotherapy and muscle spasms of multiple sclerosis but not in treating glaucoma, the disease of Robert Randall, whose legal battle with the DEA sparked the case. Randall gets his daily prescribed dose of marijuana from a pharmacy in Washington that is supplied by a federal farm in Mississippi. He believes the evidence before his eyes. "It's been twelve years," says Randall, who was expected to lose his eyesight by 1977, "and I haven't gone blind...
...second act of Long Day's Journey into Night: a downward spiral of drink, disillusion and self-destructiveness. Jean Stafford followed just such a pattern, all the more regrettably because her first act was so full of energy % and promise. Fresh from a Colorado upbringing, she married Poet Robert Lowell and at 29 published the best seller Boston Adventure. Other marriages and other books followed, and so did poor health and a passel of troubles, many self-inflicted. By the time her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, she had long since fallen silent as a fiction writer...
...also presents the glimmer of a great opportunity: the planet's problems could become so paramount they would force a new spirit of international partnership, one that could serve as a model for cooperation on political, economic and military matters. "We're talking about a global-security issue," says Robert Berg, president of the International Development Conference...
...from the sun and keep the earth warm. This greenhouse effect is expected to bring about more change more quickly than any other climatic event in the earth's history. Scientists warn that the changes cannot be stopped, though they can be slowed. But the time is short. Says Robert Dickinson, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "We don't have 100 years. We have ten or 20 at most...
...hire," notes Soviet Backstroker Sergei Zabolotnov, who earns $583 a month as a swimming- coach-in-training. The Soviets, too, mutter darkly about drugs, and with reason: some U.S. athletic officials suspect that abuse of steroids and their kin is indeed more widespread in the U.S. Says Dr. Robert Voy, chief medical officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee: "If I had to guess, I'd say we do a little worse...