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...young person who finds it difficult to cope with society, who has an emotional problem or is a heavy user of drugs is a prime target for the tentacles of the Children of God. I know. I spent three months in England trying to persuade my 19-year-old sister to leave the cult. It is pathetic to look at a member of your family and realize that she spends her life in a dank, condemned warehouse with no gainful employment, begging for food and clothing, studying the Bible by day and witnessing for Christ by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1973 | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...help subsidize the costs of having the system, the library may be forced to charge a user...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ed School Computer Terminal May Reduce Research Time | 3/6/1973 | See Source »

...Users-who are mostly youngsters -are rhapsodic about the euphoric, spaced-out state the drug can produce. Many, calling methaqualone "heroin for lovers," also believe that it is an aphrodisiac. They are mistaken. As a "downer," or depressant, the drug may release the user from his normal sexual restraints. But it is also likely to make a male incapable of normal sexual performance. As one Vassar man puts it, "All your inhibitions are definitely broken down-like everything else in your body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Downer | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...combination can be catastrophic. Methaqualone and alcohol are synergistic: one multiplies the effects of the other. Taken together, they can depress the respiratory center and stop breathing; they may also slow the reflexes in the back of the throat, so that if a user vomits (which may happen after a large dose of methaqualone), he can choke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Downer | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...Federal Communications Commission regulations to force the Name Caller off the market. The suit also contends that the telephone companies threatened to suspend the phone service of retailers if they continued to sell the device. Indeed, the telephone companies can legally shut off service to any phone user who hooks up a device himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Name Calling | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

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