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...million drug abusers and addicts in the U.S. Although it's difficult to put a price tag on the total impact of drug abuse, NIDA estimates it costs the U.S. $484 billion a year in health care costs, lost earnings, crime and accidents. Complicating the problem, addicts tend to abuse more than one substance at a time - two-thirds of cocaine addicts also use alcohol, for example - a potentially lethal combination that may be increasing in popularity. A 2006 University of Florida study found that deaths from cocaine overdose, which often involved alcohol, increased in Florida from 150 a year...
...users to exchange ideas across borders, Hopkins said. He said the online streaming of video offers an opportunity to break free of the limits of the TV spectrum, where “content becomes very base and mean, and hence you get things that tend to cater to the average viewer.” Hopkins said he initially arranged a meeting with Summers to discuss what it would take to convince the former treasury secretary to participate as an expert on the site. Summers raised concerns about scholarly discourse being undermined by inappropriate content posted to the site by individual...
...wasn’t really surprised [by the results] because I think that young people tend to fall under the radar of polls,” said Thompson, noting that polls had predicted a tight race between Obama, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clindon, and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in the weeks leading up to the caucuses...
...Some students feel like they are running on empty,” said Sung Lim Shin, a counselor at the BSC for 13 years. “They tend to have such a full platter with all of the activities and the commitments that they have...
...than $1.2 trillion. All we have to do is find the political and popular will to implement the plan. But that's the problem. Brown's proposals are solid, but the real battle over climate change is now political, not technological, and it's one that too many environmentalists tend to discount. If you've drunk the green Kool-Aid, it can seem frustratingly obvious why we need a $240 carbon tax, or why the climate change challenge is on par with World War II, and thus demands Rosie the Riveter redux. But the true, painstaking challenge of the next...