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There are still taboo subjects, however: Martin has avoided writing about drugs, sex and child abuse. "I think these topics are a little heavy for younger readers," she explains. Some kids like it that way. Such topics "would ruin the books," says Kathy Ames, 14, a Wyckoff, N.J., ninth- grader and a devoted fan. But others aren't so sure. "If these girls were real, they'd probably already be offered drugs and have to deal with it," says Langlois. Sounds like a new assignment for the Baby-Sitters...
...exhaustion, and we may all have to bear the brunt. My hunch is that at the rate the fund is shrinking, the banks don't have the resources to shore it up. We can raise the premiums they pay in, but that may just send more banks into ruin...
Even if Iraq were to annex Saudi Arabia, a dubious prospect at best, Hussein certainly would not ruin the world economy. Oil sales are a way of getting hard currency, which is what Saddam Hussein wants (to finance Iraq's debt). He certainly wants to sell oil, and excessive oil prices would force petroleum importers to tap other sources of energy, ruining the Iraqi oil economy...
Czechoslovakia's President bluntly told his citizens to expect bitter hardship: "What a year ago seemed to be a dilapidated house is in fact a ruin." As the country rapidly moves to free markets, he admitted, "inflation will grow despite all measures designed to curb...
Vietnam was conceived as a Wilsonian venture. However wrong yesterday's hawks were in many respects, they were right that communism spelled ruin and misery for the peoples of Southeast Asia...