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Other new features in the Harvard On-Line Library Information System (HOLLIS) include a call-number search which will make it possible for a user to find books by their Dewey decimal numbers, Tallent said. He said students will also be able to use a "trace" command when looking at a listing, so they can find other books on the same subject...
...used safely. But he is convinced that nontoxic, nonaddictive drugs can be devised, even though "the research may require the same effort and cost man put forth to go to the moon." The utopian intoxicants he envisions would provide pleasure or stimulation within limits but would not cause a user to lose control, nor pose any danger of overdose. Such wonder drugs may be years away, Siegel concedes, but he notes that molecular chemists have developed hundreds of new psychoactive compounds that are still waiting to be tested...
...first time, the networks are even turning to erstwhile competitors for help with the hype. ABC is running commercials for its fall shows in movie theaters. CBS is stuffing brochures inside boxes of blank Maxell videocassettes. NBC is doing the same with Scotch cassettes. ABC is targeting the VCR user with a more high-tech gimmick: a special bar code in the network's November TV Guide ads will enable owners of specially equipped models of Panasonic VCRs to record certain ABC shows automatically...
...Bennett also fervently advocates getting tough on casual users, through punishments from boot camp to community service to the loss of driver's licenses and student loans. "In many ways, the casual user is a more significant carrier of problems than the addict," he says. "That person by example often suggests that you can do drugs...
Miami skier David Ingle, 30, suggests that user attitudes deserve much of the blame. "Riders brought it on themselves," he says. "Many times I'd tell them to slow it down, to ease up. The things they said back you couldn't print. They grab a beer, jump on a machine, and it all goes to their head." This summer's new laws may force skiers to approach the machines more cautiously, and prevent another season of tragic accidents...