Posted on 08/13/2003 11:26:55 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Last pieces from the files, for a while...
The mass of material after the 9/11 attacks contained this anguishing item - as phrased by a leading newspaper: "The terror network headed by Osama bin Laden has tried to develop a high-strength form of heroin that it planned to export to the United States and Western Europe. ... (The project's goal) was to create a high-potency heroin that would produce greater addiction and havoc than drugs available in Western cities."
Remember steel? U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Jones & Laughlin, Youngstown, Ling-Temco-Vought, National, Wheeling-Pittsburgh, Nucor (now the biggest): Some are with us and some are not. Since 1998 more than a dozen American steel producers have sought bankruptcy protection, and some have liquidated; not long ago U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, and Wheeling were said to be talking merger.
The Bush administration has been promoting an ambitious $5-billion, six-year federal program to help children learn to read, particularly in needy areas. The program also favors phonics over "whole language" experimentalism - and, of course, many in the ingrown educational community are aghast. They contend phonics is no better than any other method, and disparage studies showing it is. But this is inarguable: When phonics was the major method for teaching reading, nearly every child learned to read - as opposed to the vast numbers today, taught in the latest la-de-da oh-so-chic ways, who cannot.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Never would have worked---what produces havoc is not the heroin but the war against it, which boosts its price and thus enriches dealers while it motivates theft by users.
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