Word: trappings
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...Wozencraft is a former narcotics policewoman who got hooked on drugs and became an armed robber. In this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell...
...Columbia to Oregon, forests that predate the 13 Colonies are being sacrificed for plywood, planks and pulp. The rapidity with which these primeval stands are being cut down has driven a handful of environmental extremists to sabotage timber-industry equipment, tie themselves to trees slated for harvesting and booby-trap trees with buried spikes that can mangle saws or injure unwary cutters...
...Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility. Then on Nov. 25 came an even greater shock for Washington. An unmarked plane carrying 24 SA-7 surface-to- air missiles crashed in El Salvador...
Despite this fact, many first-year students fall into the trap of the supposedly prestigious concentration. Most honors concentrations are bigger than their regular counterparts, and at Harvard, bigger is rarely better...
People also often feel that being friendly to homeless people won't have any impact on the problem. This argument is a paralyzing trap that prevents people from helping at all. When doing nothing can be so hurtful to the individual, something is better than nothing. And just saying "Here you go, take care," or "Sorry I don't have anything with me, but good luck," is something...