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    A recent New Yorker (October 30 issue) had an investigative article which provided exhaustive account of the extensive marketing behind the proliferation of OxyContin .  I do mean exhaustive on several levels: the reporter devoted many hours and commendable effort to the piece.  (One disgusting aspect of indiscriminately attacking the press is how…

Layered

It is overall heartbreaking to realize that what bands together those citizens of the world who turn to violence is perhaps a shared sense of uselessness.  In the book “Baghdad Burning,” the author points out the rampant unemployment which followed the destabilizing American intervention in Iraqi politics and military maneuvering.  I also read about the…