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...public. Treatment admissions suggest many users have tried to break their habits since heroin supply fell, but drug workers see plenty of others who inject stimulants instead. "Our clients are saying, why waste our money on heroin when it's not very good quality and when ice is so cheap?" says Wendy Macken, head of Directions A.C.T., Canberra's largest non-government drug and alcohol service. "For them it doesn't matter what the effect is, as long as it takes them away from what they were feeling." The result, she says, is a growing number of amphetamine-dependent troublemakers...
...Grasse was once famous for its fields of wildflowers, which used to be laboriously hand pressed to make perfumes. But most of the flowers are now grown in cheap-labor countries like Bulgaria and China. Grasse also imports hundreds of exotic ingredients, such as Indian sandalwood and Madagascar patchouli leaf. These days, however, synthetics often mimic traditional perfume ingredients like ambergris (a substance found in a sperm whale's intestines) and musk (taken from a gland near the foreskin of a Himalayan deer...
...back for an extended stay. The Price of Membership Call it the E.U. diet: soaring food prices in Poland since it joined the Union on May 1 have forced some people to alter their menus. Beef prices shot up by 21.7% in the second quarter, thanks to demand for cheap Polish meat in other E.U. states. Carb lovers suffered, too: rice prices rose 27.7% after Poland implemented E.U. tariffs on imports from countries such as Vietnam. Food and oil have driven overall inflation to almost double the central bank's 2.5% target, and bankers will likely hike interest rates...
...America as remote from today's metaphorically as the craggy villages of Sardinia, Okinawa and Nova Scotia are geographically. In the early 1900s people walked miles to work not by choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People tilled the fields because their farmer parents needed cheap help. People ate what they grew because it was there. Most labor was manual then, and most nutrients were natural. Preserved food was what Aunt Maud sealed in a jar. Tobacco and alcohol were available, but most of today's centenarians didn't indulge to excess...
...have any fat centenarians." And if research really does extend life by a vigorous couple of decades, the new millions of centenarians will need a support system that spreads beyond family and friends to include a hugely expensive Social Security and Medicare apparatus. The coming gerontocracy won't come cheap...