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...statistics are nothing to celebrate: 58% of high school seniors admit to having tried illegal drugs at least once. But the percentage of students experimenting with illicit drugs actually dropped last year -- as it has every year but one since 1978. That encouraging news comes from the twelfth annual survey on teenage drug use conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research...
...smoke inhalation. Others farther inside perished immediately; rescue workers found their charred corpses sitting upright in chairs around the blackjack tables. The terror did not end on the mezzanine. Smoke poured out of the lower floors and wrapped the 22-story building in a dense cloak. On the twelfth floor, Nancy Brensson, 12, of Cresskill, N.J., was watching a rerun of The Carol Burnett Show while her mother was taking a shower. "Suddenly the room went dark," she said. "I looked out and saw this cloud. My father said that it was probably rain. But he opened the balcony door...
...prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 1987, the studio's The Golden Child, starring Comedian Eddie Murphy, is the hot Christmas movie, raking in $11.6 million in its first weekend at 1,667 theaters -- despite mixed reviews. Paramount's astonishing Australian import, "Crocodile" Dundee, has just finished its twelfth week as a top grosser, having earned more than $103 million at 1,495 theaters. Headed in the same direction is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which has earned $47.5 million in three weeks. Well ahead of them all is Paramount's Top Gun, which has taken...
...history and will create the fourth largest bank company, behind Citicorp, BankAmerica and Chase Manhattan. One day after that deal became public, two large Dallas institutions, healthy Republic Bank and ailing Interfirst, announced a Texas- size merger of their own. The combined bank (assets: $35 billion) will be the $ twelfth largest...
Many communities, of course, have outstanding programs, including Arlington, Va., Baltimore, and Irvington, N.J. Teaching can be impressively broad, running from kindergarten through twelfth grade and based on developmental psychology, emphasizing assertiveness training, the mechanics of decision making and assigned essays on topics like sex in the media...