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...will look easy compared with the feat being attempted by his successor. South Africa?s elder statesman bowed out of the presidency Wednesday as his hand-picked heir, Thabo Mbeki, was inaugurated as head of a state that has abolished apartheid but not yet overcome its legacy. Offering a sober assessment of the dramatic social inequalities that persist in post-apartheid South Africa, Mbeki dedicated his government to overcoming unemployment, hunger, poverty and crime. "The full meaning of liberation will not be realized until our people are freed from the dehumanizing legacy of deprivation we inherited from our past...
...Wilson underwent a barbiturate-and-belladonna cure called "purge and puke," which was state-of-the-art alcoholism treatment at the time, his brain spun with phrases from Oxford Group meetings, Carl Jung and William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, which he read in the hospital. Five sober months later, Wilson went to Akron, Ohio, on business. The deal fell through, and he wanted a drink. He stood in the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel, entranced by the sounds of the bar across the hall. Suddenly he became convinced that by helping another alcoholic, he could save himself...
...million to 1.5 million; on the other, the number of people behind bars or on probation for drunken driving during the same period nearly doubled, from 270,100 to 513,200. Some experts believe the declining number of arrests indicate a level of success in getting social drinkers to sober up behind the wheel -- in part caused by the aging of the nation?s motorist population. But the rise in the number of those under some sort of correctional supervision, say observers, also suggests that there is a group of problem drinkers who continue to be arrested...
...addition, Duke's center has a program called Safe Haven. Open on the weekends, Safe Haven provides a place for women to "sober up in safety," wait inside for transportation and sleep over in times of crisis...
...sober morning-after appraisal of the available information is not so chilling (one-third of the Cox report remains classified). Sizable numbers of arms-control experts, intelligence agents and FBI officials regard much of the tome as biased and alarmist and disagree with many of its central claims. But even they agree that the report lays out a real problem: for decades China has been running an intensive intelligence-collection effort targeting an array of U.S. military and commercial technologies. Nor does anyone doubt that Beijing has acquired both by stealth and by legitimate means pieces of hardware and information...