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...researchers at Oregon State University are taking a new approach to assessing drug use that could potentially transform the government's understanding of America's drug problem. In small samples taken from untreated community sewage plants in six major cities, lead researcher Jennifer Field has been identifying and analyzing chemicals the body produces after breaking down substances like marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and heroin. This method, first used by Italian scientists to gauge regional cocaine use, allows researchers to analyze data within hours, tracking drug use, not over a year's time using aggregated national data, but over a few days...
...1970s for fueling the drug's popularity - and fostering the crack epidemic of the 1980s. One law enforcement official in Philadelphia says a contemporary analogy is the growing abuse of prescription painkillers, which now ranks second - behind marijuana use - as the nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere "medical misuse," Compton says. Officials actually had to modify the NSDUH survey after realizing that some methamphetamine users failed to report using the drug...
...system—meets for the first time tomorrow, it must remember that current students continue to deal with all the flaws and frustrations of the Core Curriculum. And while we understand that implementing an entirely new curriculum takes time, many of the Core’s major problems are easy to fix and can be addressed within the next few weeks. Perhaps the worst feature of the Core is its limited course offerings. This semester, for example, only three courses count for Historical Studies B, and only five are offered in the spring. And for students choosy enough...
Only 1 percent of the United States’ undergraduates study abroad; over 75 percent of them pick a program that lasts fewer than 12 weeks, and so Harvard’s “study abroad problem,” if I might call it that, is also a national issue. And even though study abroad is increasing, in a large part thanks to Congress’ 2006 push for students to go abroad, many cram programs into summer vacations, eager to experience international education but unwilling to sacrifice an academic semester in the States...
...Others suggest that Sarkozy and Kouchner (who has since stressed that "everything should be done to avoid war") are not just posturing, but really do believe that time is short before the unwanted military option becomes inevitable for Iran. "The problem is that the Iranian leadership likes to believe the military option isn't open to the U.S. while it's tied up in Iraq with an unpopular war," explains François Heisbourg, special advisor to the Foundation for Strategic Studies in Paris. "Sarkozy and Kouchner are trying to tell them, 'Yes, it is. Believe it and fear...