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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rekindled by news that the Soviets have conducted a successful test flight of a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet modified to burn a mixture of liquid hydrogen and natural gas. The three- engine jet, which lifted off near Moscow and flew for 21 minutes, was the first aircraft to use the fuel in takeoff. Says Senator Spark Matsunaga, a Hawaii Democrat and a leading advocate of a U.S. hydrogen-fuel research program: "It appears that the Soviets have stolen a technological march...
...great debate over legalizing recreational drugs, the least convincing assertion of the pro-legalizers is that drug use might not even increase as a result. I can state for certain that drug use would increase. I don't use drugs now. If they were legal, I would use them. Or rather, if marijuana were legal, I would use it occasionally instead of the legal drug I now use regularly, alcohol. To be sure, increased respect for the law is not the only reason so many middle-class, middle-age people have abandoned marijuana: you're also no longer so carefree...
Both sides of the legalization debate cite the example of alcohol, without really understanding it. Pro-legalizers say other drugs are no worse than alcohol and it's hypocritical for society to spend millions trying to ban the use of "drugs" while other millions are spent promoting the use of Scotch. Anti-legalizers say, hypocrisy or not, we're stuck with the social costs of alcohol but that doesn't mean we need to add other drugs to the vicious stew...
...sufficient reason to legalize it. The majority of people probably could drive safely at 75 or 80 m.p.h., but we can't custom-make the rules for each individual and it's the minority at greatest risk we have to worry about. If a significant minority cannot use marijuana safely, if grass frequently leads to more dangerous drugs, if it has dangerous long-term side effects of its own, if the problems of keeping it from children are insurmountable, these are all important and possibly determinative considerations. But society's ability to weigh these factors is hobbled by its inability...
...reason to keep going. He flits from issue to issue, earnestly discussing relations with the Soviet Union, denouncing crack- dealing youth gangs and even trumpeting plans for the exploration of Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents his concern for "the environment, toxic waste, safe food, clean water, health care, abandoned workers, safety ((and)) Mexican-Americans...