Mar 22, 2009 -
"HOW TO STOP THE DRUG WARS
Mar 5th 2009
From The Economist print edition
Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution.
A HUNDRED years ago a group of foreign diplomats gathered in Shanghai for the first-ever international effort to ban trade in a narcotic drug. On February 26th 1909 they agreed to set up the International Opium Commission—just a few decades after Britain had fought a war with China to assert its right to peddle the stuff.
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Dec 11, 2008 -
Unfreakin' believable...
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 11, 2008; A01
Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service screened the IDs of employees for a Maryland cleaning company before they entered the house of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation's top immigration official.
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Apr 21, 2008 -
Not long ago I had an apple problem. Wavering in the produce section of a Manhattan grocery store, I was unable to decide between an organic apple and a nonorganic apple (which was labeled conventional, since that sounds better than "sprayed with pesticides that might kill you"). It shouldn't have been a tough choice--who wants to eat pesticide residue?--but the organic apples had been grown in California.
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Feb 24, 2008 -
I was browsing through my favorite organic supermarket the other day. I was looking through the beauty section, smelling a bar of mango soap when I stopped and thought about how uneven my skin is. I'm not meaning blemishes, I'm talking tone.
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Dec 30, 2007 -
Whether you have an hour to primp for a party or just five minutes.
1.Go for contrasting lids and tips. Pair a smoldering eye look with a crisp off-white nail polish.
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