Word: warne
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According to its manufacturers, methaqualone is a dependable and effective sleeping pill. Blurbs in the standard Physicians' Desk Reference attest to its "sedative and hypnotic" effects and its ability to induce prompt sleep, but warn that the drug may also produce dependency. The warning is appropriate. Though the drug may be safe if it is taken as prescribed by a physician, increasing numbers of Americans-especially on campuses and in ghettos-are obtaining the drug illegally and taking it indiscriminately. Methaqualone is rapidly becoming one of the most popular -and dangerous-drugs of abuse in the U.S. The Government...
This kind of specious comparative analysis underlies the analytical parts of the book. Kelman evidently sees himself as a modern Tocqueville, journeying to what he describes as the Communist future in East Germany to warn Americans that they are better off with what they have--nice consumer goods in large quantities, and, incidentally, text-book freedom. When Kelman crosses over to West Germany, he ritually cements his warm relationship with America by self-consciously buying a Coca-Cola...
...soon took over as editor of the weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope. The paper keeps Thomas, his Alberta-born wife and one employee busy. A self-confessed "disturber of the social scene," he goes after conflicts of interest in the local council and finds frequent opportunity to warn his readers against the "rat race of U.S. life." Amnesty, he says, does not matter to him. "Some time in the future, when there is a different President-never under Nixon-I might go back for a visit. If I can go back, why not? But I plan to make...
Even the American penchant for adopting pets can prove painful: the soldiers must either go through laborious paper work to bring their dogs home, find someone to keep them or have a veterinarian dispose of them. U.S. military authorities warn against abandoning the animals...
Russian critics are also challenging timbering practices. "We used to care for our forests," a forestry official says in Pravda. "But now we are mainly lumberjacks." Even in a nation with 30% of the world's timber, the annual ov-ercutting, four experts warn, means that "the exhaustion of forests reaches farther north every year." The results: "Erosion is intensifying, river levels falling and climate changing for the worse...