Articles

Lt. Charles T.

I have to admit that Keith grew up in a home that wasn't the best in the world. I drank a good bit and was gone from home a great deal of the time.

Most people don't realize that it's easy to get involved with drugs, but it's really hard to get away from them. I first started drinking alcohol when I was about 15.

When I was stationed in Korea, the people I hung around with in the Air Force were smoking a lot of marijuana. After I returned to the States, I didn't do drugs until about 1965, when I was in southern California.

One afternoon when I was home alone, my husband's aunt telephoned. Frantically, she told me that my mother-in-law, who had a long history of drug addiction, was now high on drugs and out of control.

Is health or life more than a chemical reaction? The growth of mind-altering, behavior-modifying, body-regulating, and other drug products makes this more than an empty question. Whether one is staving off depression, high or low blood pressure, anti-social behavior, diabetes, impotence, or hyperactivity, drugs are available.

"Love: The Anti-Drug" is the headline on an advertisement that ran in  The New York Times a couple of years ago. As this is being written, the advertiser's website (www.

I found Christian Science when I went to visit my sister who lived in a Paris suburb. At that time, I was a hairdresser in Paris.

After Christian Science was denounced as pro-jewish by the Nazis and declared illegal in 1941, the official distribution of Christian Science literature became extremely dangerous. In fact, it was possible that anyone involved could be arrested and sent off to a concentration camp.

At first, the opening decade of the 20th century seems like a time of turmoil and war. But behind these events, there are hints of a larger international vision emerging.