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...better used for drug treatment or prevention. Numerous authorities have tried to warn us, including most recently the Surgeon General, but she got brushed off like a piece of lint. After all, drug prohibition is right up there with heroin and nicotine among the habits that are hell to kick...
...kick the prohibition habit? Is it high-minded puritanism that holds us back, or political cowardice? Or maybe it's time to admit that we cling to prohibition for the same reason we cling to so many other self- destructive habits: because we like the way they make us feel. Prohibition, for example, tends to make its advocates feel powerfully righteous, and militant righteousness has effects not unlike some demon mix of liquor and amphetamines: the eyes bulge, the veins distend, the voice begins to bray...
Carolyn A. Pelzel, associate director fordevelopment, is in charge of coordinating the May13 kick-off, which will be an attempt to "show thefull range of activities at Harvard...
This kind of program will have different implications for different faculty members. For 27-year-old Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, the incentives will be available when he's in his 40s. For most others, inducements will kick in when they're in their 50s or 60s. In any case, the plan's implications will not be based on age. Every organization has a right to give rewards based on seniority, and Harvard should take advantage of its right...
...expectant mother possesses the stamina and desire to jog, cross- country ski or otherwise kick up her heels during a normal pregnancy, she may do so without risk to herself or her fetus, the latest evidence suggests...