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Parents and school principals are always trying to scare kids with the message that smoking pot will lead to harder drugs. Well, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that the grownups may be on to something. By tracking 311 pairs of Australian twins (both fraternal and identical) in which one twin used marijuana before age 17 and the other did not, researchers have been able to show that early pot users are as much as five times more likely to use or abuse cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, sedatives or alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Tokes, The Other Doesn't | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...speed ranting and spends the interval complaining about his job. Three minutes with a man who smells like dirt and sulphur is an eternity. Of the seven men that I date, there are two I would like to get to know better. It would be three, but I scare off the cop with the sweet smile when I enthusiastically ask how many dead bodies he's seen. Well, now he knows what the hell's wrong with me. But at least I can keep a beat. If music be the food of love, then salsa be the messy leftovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief Encounters | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...evening of the game, the Sharks break out of their desolation with such intensity that they seem to have trained on maotai liquor instead of boiled noodles. There is no sign of Okafor. If his name was floated merely to warn the Americans?"killing the chicken to scare the monkey," in the words of a Chinese proverb?the ploy has worked, at least for one night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ming | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...AskMen.com Top 10 Ring Tones for Your Cellular Phone. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, at No. 10, won praise because, unlike many of the standard high-pitched cell tunes, it "won't scare the bejeezus out of you when your phone rings" --By Julie Rawe

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Best 10 Best Lists | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

Otto F. Coontz, assistant to the Adams senior tutor, offered the use of his dog Pip to scare the mice back into their holes just long enough for students to cover the entrance points...

Author: By Ebonie D. Hazle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mice Seek Shelter in Adams House | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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