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...Kipling and his three-year-old sister went to England to board with a Southsea family. It was not uncommon for parents in colonial service to send their children home for reasons of education and health. Less usual was the manner of the young Kiplings' exile...
...acting is exemplary: everyone onscreen seems to be an old friend. Some minor players make uncommon impact, especially Andrew Duncan as a lecherous pressagent and Linda Miller as a divorcee who takes up with a 19-year-old lover. As the not wholly unsympathetic husband, Murphy pulls off a daring piece of acting-a faked yet affecting crying jag that accompanies his guilt-ridden confession of infidelity. Bates, of course, is the most appealing suitor that any woman, married or unmarried, could wish...
...methodologically dubious; the political requirements of funding never take precedence over sound research technique. Generally, these studies use extremely high dosage levels to establish harmful effects. Few establish close matches between the control and test groups, and when abnormalities are found in the test group, it is not uncommon to find that the group's members, unlike those in the control group, had previously used other more powerful drugs. These experiments are seldom replicated. Moreover, several recent studies have found no deleterious effects in humans who have used potent forms of the drug (such as Jamaican ganja) for long periods...
...illegal narcotics traffic across the border. Mexico obliged with a vengeance, throwing into jail hundreds of American violators; most of them were "mules," who had been smuggling large amounts of cocaine from South America or marijuana from Mexico. A 13-year sentence-with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval conditions in Mexican jails. Relatives of the 577 Americans in Mexican prisons organized "Boycott Mexico" campaigns...
...hate comes from a sense of injury as brokers contrast the current blah market with stocks in the Soaring Sixties. Then issues selling at 50, 60 and even 100 times earnings were not uncommon. Now many are going for ultralow prices of six, seven or eight times earnings. Bernstein, writing in November's Institutional Investor, a trade magazine, goes on to say that the experience of investors during the past decade "has probably been the worst in this century -and perhaps the worst in stock market history." Worse than the 1930s? Yes, says Bernstein, when inflation is cranked...