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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience pleasure, from watching a sunrise to having sex. Blocking all these pleasure centers -- as methadone blocks the heroin high -- would literally take the joy out of life, says Yale's Kosten. "We'd turn out automatons." Addicts trying to quit cocaine go through a stage called anhedonia, a sort of spiritless limbo that typically drives the user to take the drug again. At best, researchers can hope for a patchwork of drugs to block discrete stages of cocaine withdrawal, such as craving and depression...
...grisly fantasy of a different sort may soon be conjured up out of the frustration of ultra-rightists in the Salvadoran army and government who are considering a campaign of terror to suppress the insurgents. Between 1980 and 1985, confirmed killings by death squads linked to the military or National Guard liquidated 0.3% of El Salvador's population, and many far-right members of the President's ARENA party would like to resume that strategy. The rightists have reportedly stockpiled enough weapons and ammunition to pursue a terror campaign for several months after a cutoff...
Baron said that the First Amendment wasdesigned to prohibit any sort ofgovernment--including a universityadministration--from restricting what people cansay...
...Harvard," Rodriguez says. "My impression used to be that [Harvard students] didn't want to help the community and didn't have the time. Students would look at me funny when I walked around, campus and they would think, "This high school student shouldn't be here.' Now I sort of look up to them...
...hope to publish some sort of pamphlet or piece of information that is much shorter and more comprehensive than the Handbook for Students," the dean said...