letters.The Straight Dope It was refreshing to see how you dealt with drugs ("New Highs, New Risks," 5/8/00). "Smoking the Pain Away" was pioneering in that it showed both sides. Your chart of effects and risks was very informative, and I'm glad to see recognition that alcohol is still the big killer as well as the most-abused substance. I'm sick of hearing news reports saying that MDMA MDMA 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine. MDMA n. 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine; a mescaline analog. MDMA 3,4 methylenedioxy-methamphetamine. See Ecstasy. (ecstasy) will bring about the apocalypse when alcohol, a legal drug, is doing the most damage to society. There is no logic behind legalization of one but not the other. PHILIP RAPOPORT Houston, Tex. The story of Samantha Reid left me heartbroken, and scared too. A close friend told me that he wanted to try the drug ecstasy. After I read your article, I had him read it too. The look on his face when he read it was a look I will never forget. Now he knows what can happen with drugs like GHB GHB abbr. gamma-hydroxybutyrate GHB 1 Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, γ-hydroxy-butyrate See GABA 2 Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there GHb Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there and MDMA, and I know that I won't be losing one of my best friends to that new generation of drugs that promised a safe high. Thanks! JENNA BROWN Albertville, Minn. Because of your article, I decided to do a little research on my own. I found I could get recipes for making drugs from the Internet. I also found that one ecstasy pill, which costs 20 cents to make, can be sold for $20 on the street. Our towns are still infested in·fest tr.v. in·fest·ed, in·fest·ing, in·fests 1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: with the contagious disease of drug use. Our problem is that we do not seek out the teens who have succumbed to this disease, but wait for them to come to us. We should be taking more action in banning these products from our schools and towns. DANA ALBANESE Anacortes, Wash. I was shocked at how stupid those guys were who killed Samantha Reid. How could they play around with another person's life? ELLIE TECOSKY-FELDMAN Narberth, Pa. A Loaded Cartoon? The cartoon ("Drawing on the News," 4/10/00) in which the NRA NRA (National Rifle Association of America) organization that encourages sharpshooting and use of firearms for hunting. [Am. Pop. Culture: NCE, 1895] See : Hunting man says of the girl, "Tsk! If only she'd had a gun she could have defended herself" was in poor taste. Showing the little girl on the ground the way you did was sick. You should apologize to the family of Kayla Rolland. TOM ADCOCK ADCOCK A Type of Direction Finding Antenna Ortonville, Mich. It is not entertaining to show a young girl dead and then make a joke out of it. ARNOLD HERNANDEZ, JUSTIN DAVIS Davis, city (1990 pop. 46,209), Yolo co., central Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1917. It is an education center with light industry; machinery, processed foods, and computer equipment are produced. The extensive Univ. , AND MRS MRS - Modifiable Representation System. An integration of logic programming into Lisp. ["A Modifiable Representation System", M. Genesereth et al, HPP 80-22, CS Dept Stanford U 1980]. . BROWYN RACK'S 5TH-PERIOD U.S. HISTORY CLASS Houston, Tex. I was deeply offended. It's not the NRA's fault that the 6-year-old shot his classmate. ADAM Adam, the first man, in the Bible Adam (ăd`əm), [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. LUTZ Waynesboro, Ga. It was distasteful, and rude to the family of the little girl who was shot. ASHLEY WILLIAMS Indianapolis, Ind. Adam and Steve Regarding Sarah Van Wagner's letter ("Don't Ban Gay Clubs," 5/8/00), if you believe the only sinners are the people against homosexuals, you're wrong. Have you read the Bible? The world was made for Adam and Eve Adam and Eve In the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, the parents of the human race. Genesis gives two versions of their creation. In the first, God creates “male and female in his own image” on the sixth day. , not Adam and Steve. Being gay is wrong and the gays are the sinners. CLINTON HURD (operating system) Hurd - The GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar Carlton, Minn. A Gay-Straight Alliance brings together gay, straight, bisexual, and transgender teens and helps them find solutions to problems such as hate crimes and harassment. Those of us who are homosexual should not be categorized as predators. DANNY DANNY Daniel WAYNE FRIZZELL Giddings, Tex. A Balanced Diet Upfront addresses issues in the world as well as those in the teenage community. Usually, magazines do one or the other. Continue the good work. JOANIE JONES New Orleans, La. WRITE US Send your letters to T/re New York Times Upfront, Scholastic Inc., 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012-3999, or send e-mail to nytupfront@schoolastic.com. In order to be considered for publication, letters must include the writer's name, address with city and state, and phone number. We reserve the right to edit letters for length. We regret that we cannot personally answer letters we receive, but we read them all. |
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