Afghan Farmers: Opium Is the Only Way to Make a Living

Afghan Farmers: Opium Is The Only Way To Make A Living

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Jean Luc Lemahieu, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, agrees. On a sunny … Despite a substantial investment in new clinics and programs, the country only has the capacity to treat 20,000 of its more than a million addicts at a …
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Thursday's Sports In Brief

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Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen took the NL MVP by a surprisingly wide margin after leading a baseball revival in Pittsburgh. McCutchen … Michael Phelps has rejoined the U.S. drug testing program, the strongest signal yet that he's planning a …
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Experts Raise the Alarm Over the Spread of Drug-Resistant Malaria in Southeast …

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While malaria — which kills more than 600,000 people annually — wreaks its heaviest toll in Africa, it's in several Southeast Asian nations along the Mekong River where the most serious threat to treating it has emerged. Therapies using the drug …
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The Zen Buddhist Who Preyed on His Upper East Side Students

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And after his death, several students of Dainin Katagiri, the founding abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, in Minneapolis, reported having affairs with their teacher, who had been married. Today, one could reasonably …. “At that time, in …
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