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...drug first became a problem in Tazewell in 1998, but its national reach is well known, ensnaring even radio impresario Rush Limbaugh in a scandal that sent him into rehab. Around the nation, the statistics tell the story. A Jan. 21, 2005, report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that the number of people who had used oxycodone, the main ingredient in OxyContin, for nonmedical reasons jumped from 11.8 million in 2002 to 13.7 million in 2003. The increase happened even though OxyContin's maker stopped distributing its strongest pill, the 160-mg tablet...
...issues capable of uniting, on one side, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, and on the other, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. If the FCC is strengthened, Limbaugh has argued, what happens when a future Democratic Administration decides that conservative talk radio is violence-inciting "hate speech"? Meanwhile, earlier this month, Clinton took the stage with Santorum and Brownback to decry indecency in pop culture and call for a federal study of its effect on children. The issue is even thorny for Bush, who knows his debt to social conservatives but told C-SPAN...
DIED. MARY ELIZABETH CRONKITE, 89, wife of former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, known as Betsy; of complications from cancer; in New York City. As employees of radio station KCMO in Kansas City, Mo., the pair met on Betsy's third day at work when they stood near each other to read advertising copy on the air. The couple would have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary this month...
...ever faced." What became known as "the Long Telegram" shook up the foreign policy establishment, as did a subsequent essay he wrote for Foreign Affairs magazine. His doctrine galvanized an array of initiatives to compete with the Soviets, among them the Marshall Plan, NATO, the World Bank and Radio Free Europe. It was an approach that policymakers today would do well to study as they face a similar global challenge...
...Cultural Revolution, Shan, a Beijing native, was banished there for six years. By day, he sweated under the blistering sun, tilling the soil and herding cattle--or healing villagers as one of Mao's famous "barefoot doctors." At night, he listened to Voice of America on a small radio, studied an English dictionary and hoped for something better. "When you have a job in the Gobi with absolutely no hope and no future, you learn to be patient," Shan says...