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...Thursday morning, and 18-year-old "Karen" and five friends decide to go for it. They skip first period and sneak into the woods near their upscale high school. One of them takes out six rolls--six ecstasy pills--and they each swallow one. Then back to school, flying on a drug they once used only on weekends. Now they smile stupid gelatinous smiles at one another, even as high school passes them by. That night they will all go out and drop more ecstasy, rolling into the early hours of another school day. It's rare that anyone would...
What's the appeal of ecstasy? As a user put it, it's "a six-hour orgasm." About half an hour after you swallow a hit of e, you begin to feel peaceful, empathetic and energetic--not edgy, just clear. Pot relaxes but sometimes confuses; LSD stupefies; cocaine wires. Ecstasy has none of those immediate downsides. "Jack," 29, an Indiana native who has taken ecstasy about 40 times, said the only time he felt as good as he does on e was when he found out he had won a Rhodes scholarship. He enjoys feeling logorrheic: ecstasy users often talk...
...speak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
What do corporate small fry think of this? "It can really hurt cash-strapped concerns struggling to maintain their profit margins," says John Emling, a lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in Washington. "But if we have to swallow this bitter pill, we want some sugar coating (such as the proposed tax cut) to help it go down easier...
...open question. The think tank preparing his economic package is composed mostly of highly regarded liberal economists, and Putin may even spend some of the nationalist political capital he established in his Chechnya campaign - and in rebuffing Western complaints over human rights violations there - to force Russians to swallow some more economic "shock therapy" in the hope of reviving the economy...