Word: use
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More than 400 women have stayed, usually for about 13 months, since THI opened its doors in 1986. Roughly 65% of the cases involved alcohol and drug use, while 85% of the residents had been physically or sexually abused. This halfway house was their first experience of safety -- and for many, of responsibility as well. "This place saved my life," says Lynn Morozko, who sells her plasma and works at a women's shelter while earning a degree in design engineering. "A lot of people think homelessness is a type of social Darwinism," she says. "But it isn't stupid...
...next-day-delivery services vulnerable to terrorist attack? A former courier for Federal Express thinks so and claims that he was dismissed when he tried to warn the company. Max Cornelssen, 49, notes that when shippers use commercial flights, packages receive insufficient inspection before being dispatched. He fears that hidden explosive devices could wreak destruction on the U.S. commercial fleet. When Cornelssen submitted a plan for package inspections, he was put on suspension and later fired. FedEx says the dismissal was for unrelated violations of policy. The company's security chief points out that only about...
...Congress approved the moral equivalent of a war declaration with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized Lyndon Johnson to use whatever force was necessary to protect U.S. troops in Vietnam. Frustrated by the bootless escalation of that conflict, Congress nine years later overrode Richard Nixon's veto of legislation requiring a President to withdraw troops from hostile areas after 60 days unless Congress approves the deployment. Several Presidents have declared that War Powers Resolution unconstitutional, although none asked the courts for a ruling...
...Administration has been closing ranks to offer a suddenly more downbeat assessment of whether sanctions can work. In late October, George Bush was still expressing the hope that the embargo could force Saddam to retreat. But last week, a few days after the United Nations Security Council approved the use of military force in the gulf, he declared, "I've not been one who has been convinced that sanctions alone would bring him to his senses." On the same day that Webster spoke before the House Armed Services Committee, Secretary of State James Baker appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations...
...says to one woman in a sheer blouse. He asks her for her first name, jots it down on his clipboard and hands her a number of alcohol packs so she can disinfect her skin before she shoots up, along with some condoms. "Be careful and make sure you use them, for everything," he warns. Condoms are the most popular giveaway, and many claim they always use them. Says Karen, 28, a spunky black woman with cropped hair, body-hugging white shorts and a loose-fitting top: "I got a bag full of rubbers and don't even have room...