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Such reports underscore a dismaying fact: for nearly every item of good news on the drug front, there is at least one bad-news bulletin. While the U.S. has made significant progress in curbing casual drug use, it has made far less headway on the problems that most trouble the public, hard-core addiction and drug-related violence. Last year the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that the number of current users of illegal drugs had fallen to 14.5 million from 23 million in 1985. But while there was a dramatic decrease in the number of occasional users...
Bennett's successor is expected to be Florida Governor Bob Martinez, 55, who was defeated in his bid for a second term. The Republican Governor is known more for a hard-line approach to law enforcement than for progress in education and treatment...
...committee is expected to report its progress to members of the Board of Overseers at the board's Cambridge meeting on December 8 and 9. The board, which is elected by alumni and meets five times annually, must approve the final selection for president...
Fortunately, as awareness grows that diabetes is a major killer, some discoveries in the field are giving new hope to its victims. Scientists are beginning to understand what causes diabetes and how to slow its progress. In fact, researchers are increasingly optimistic about developing drug treatments that may stop the affliction cold in many cases...
What appeals so strongly about Higgins' fiction may be that he lets the reader overhear men sizing up other men, judging them, often not gently. (Mostly men, yes; his women characters tend to be not much more than complications in the lives of their menfolk.) In The Progress of the Seasons, a 1989 book nominally about Boston's accursed Red Sox baseball team but mostly about the author's family, Higgins offers a shimmering truth: Irish Catholic males can't talk to one another about important personal matters. (Scandinavian Protestant males can't either, for the record...