The forum takes its cue from a 2011 report from the Indiana Prevention Resource Center, which indicated that as of 2011, 5.6 percent of eighth graders in Indiana have used prescription painkillers. As these young people grow older, this number increases, with usage among high school seniors rising to 16 percent. (more…)
Yacht hire and sailing schools
Try the RYA it used to be at the top of the New North Quay. Otherwise get in touch with the Yacht club.
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The Mighty Wurlitzer, by Hugh Wilford
“It has been decades since the late historian Christopher Lasch wrote his famous essay “The Cultural Cold War” in the Nation, which showed that many postwar American intellectuals had accepted funds from the CIA, and argued that they were as compromised as those artists and intellectuals in Europe and those within the Soviet bloc who prospered by accepting KGB sponsorship. (more…)
The Teapot Dome Scandal, by Laton McCartney
“To most Americans younger than, say, 50, the Watergate scandal is a vague affair. Oh sure, they know that it involved a break-in and cost Richard M. Nixon the presidency. But past that, the names and details are fuzzy at best. (more…)
Lincoln and the Court, by Brian McGinty
“The Supreme Court helped launch Abraham Lincoln’s national political career, albeit unintentionally. (more…)
The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and The Game of Their Lives, by Neil Swidey
“Now is the winter of every sports fan’s discontent. The sports page these days all too often reads like a rap sheet, if not a treatise on advanced pharmacology. (more…)