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...report, which was released Thursday at Massachusetts General Hospital, strongly suggests that substance abuse is not a random event and indicates that teen-age alcohol, cigarette and drug use can be predicted and perhaps even prevented...
...died after taking tainted capsules. Once again the capsule form of the leading nonprescription pain-relief medicine in the U.S. was stripped from store shelves across the nation as Tylenol's manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, offered a $100,000 reward for help in tracking down what seemed to be a random killer. Said Company Chairman James Burke: "This is an act of terrorism, pure and simple...
Kate Simon, best known as the author of guidebooks, is one of those rare writers who is preternaturally incapable of composing a dull sentence. Here, for example, are the pickings of a random sampling of her work. A description of a Canal Street flea market from New York Places and Pleasures: "Inside, a sizable jungle of loose white and tan shoelaces, Dracula banks which need batteries for pushing out a pale green hand to grasp a coin, among the books one volume of an obsolete encyclopedia and a novel by Clare Boothe Luce." From Mexico Places and Pleasures: "One young...
This latest act of random murder makes one feel strangely vulnerable. We all are users of painkillers and cold remedies. Any one of us could be a victim. Along with the experts, we wonder how to make packages more "tamper-resistant" and how to protect ourselves from anonymous assailants...
Reagan chose to honor four young teenagers in his address--a group that, despite their merits, seemed like a random Boy and Girl Scout honor list. There is another group of teenagers, much larger, and, as long as we're calling attention to what needs to be noticed, much more deserving. These are the one million teenagers who each year become mothers...