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...their families in Footscray, has been helping the disadvantaged in Melbourne's western suburbs for more than two decades. The heroin supply recovered quickly there, he says, but purity - an indicator of supply levels, because dealers dilute with other substances when supply falls - has never returned to the "wild levels" of the late 1990s. He believes fewer overdose deaths and the record numbers of users entering treatment have taken the heroin problem off the front pages. "People think it's all O.K., but that's not the case." A few steps from his office, behind a main street crammed with...
...legacy of the profligate Whitlam era (1972-75) and the wild ride of the Hawke-Keating years is that Latham will be forced to eat up much of this campaign pleading the case that Labor can be trusted with managing the money. Howard and Costello can continue spending taxpayer funds - outbidding Labor on health spending or tax cuts - and not carry the stain of profligacy. Appearing as a pale imitation of his former self, Latham signed a low-interest-rate guarantee a few days into the campaign. The stunt reeked of the forlorn Crean years and brought gleeful ridicule from...
...Right This Minute Something wild is overtaking fashion...
...head upstairs to buy a Libertine shirt for Gela's husband, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor. I spot a houndstooth coat with horse prints that I think would look particularly good while performing Wild Boys. The guy working at the store thinks it's too small for Taylor, so Gela passes on it. She does, however, compliment my eye--the first time that has ever happened when I wasn't playing softball...
...industry has its origins, rather implausibly, in leather tanning. During the 16th century, tanners made scented leather gloves?a hot item in an age when poor sanitation and haphazard refuse disposal meant that ambient smells were much stronger than they are today. The leather was perfumed with essences of wild Mediterranean flowers?and as time went on, extracting these essences became a specialized task. Grasse's perfume industry was born...