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...high numbers? Jim Anthony, chair of the department of epidemiology at Michigan State University and an author of the study, says U.S. drug habits have to do, in part, with the country's affluence - many Americans can afford to spend their income on recreational drugs. Another factor may be an increasing awareness that marijuana may be less toxic than other drugs, such as tobacco or alcohol. (However, the study also found that the U.S. is among the leading countries in the percentage of respondents who have tried tobacco and alcohol). As for the popularity of cocaine, the reason may simply...
...Traveling in my family has always been a paradox. We are Hindus who wait hours in line at the Vatican. We go to the Bahamas and spend the whole day indoors reading. And here, at The Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai, my parents harangue our guide with loud questions and snap pictures as people pray and my brother and I lurk behind...
...Pope is expected to address the plight of Australia's Aborigines, which John Paul II eloquently brought up during his visit in 1986. The German pontiff will spend the first four days of his visit resting at a retreat outside of Sydney run by the conservative Catholic group Opus...
...Indonesian regimes; inflation was also a factor during China's Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. Consumer price inflation stirs up the middle classes because it can quickly erase years of hard-won personal gains. And inflation can be particularly cruel to the poor, because families are forced to spend a larger share of their meager incomes on necessities. UNICEF estimates that an additional 1.8 million children in India may be on the brink of malnutrition due to high food costs as households scale back on meals. In the Philippines, farmers, unable to afford fuel for tractors, are reverting to water...
With which designer, dead or alive, would you like to spend a lunch dishing fashion ideas? -Milo Keilo, MILILANI, HAWAIIOh, the first really seminal designer of the 20th century: Coco Chanel. That would be some lunch. If it were a living designer, there's no one more fabulous to have lunch with than Diane von Furstenberg...