-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 60 - October, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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Contents:
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--Protests at 1st Presidential Debate
--Protesters Take Post-Debate Stage
--U.S. Troops in Colombia Threatened
--FBI Releases Carnivore Documents to EPIC
--COPA panel wants billions more for cops
--POOR journalists of color seize media access at NAB convention
Linked stories:
*Gore and Bush Face Off in Exclusive Presidential Debate
*Expert slams 'designer' babies
*Designer baby' sparks ethics row
*Test Tube Tech May Save Child
*When cocaine walks Wall Street
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Protests at 1st Presidential Debate
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed Oct 4 '00
BOSTON (AP) -- Thousands of protesters gathered at the presidential debate
Tuesday, championing issues from campaign finance reform to the right of
third-party candidates to be included in the matchup between Democrat Al
Gore and Republican George W. Bush.
Police said more than a dozen people were arrested and one person was taken
into custody for drunkenness. Dozens of protesters knocked over police
barricades and sat down, arms linked, in a road leading to the debate hall
at the University of Massachusetts. They chanted "Open the debate."
Officers dragged away some protesters while other officers on horseback
tried to dispel the crowd. Some protesters threw items left in the street
at the officers.
The incident followed a brief tug-of-war over the metal barriers between
police and protesters, who shouted to officers, "We are nonviolent, how
about you?"
Boston Globe photographer Dominic Chavez was injured when he was picked up
and thrown to the ground and his camera slammed into his back, said Catie
Aldrich, the newspaper's photography director. Chavez was taken to a
hospital, but did not appear to be seriously injured, Aldrich said.
Demonstrators from all points on the political spectrum were
represented. Anti-death penalty advocates mingled with people protesting
China's treatment of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. People calling for
manned missions to Mars were near a group of Palestinians decrying Israeli
military action.
In Washington, dozens of people in wheelchairs blocked entrances to the
Republican Party's headquarters for five hours, demanding a meeting with
Bush. The protest forced the cancellation of a fund-raiser and kept
employees from leaving the building, although some climbed out of
first-floor windows.
At the debate, witnesses said a man wearing a Gore T-shirt turned from an
argument between supporters of Gore and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader,
grabbed a 3-foot wooden cross from a man holding it and broke it over the
man's head. Witnesses screamed for police; the assailant fled into the crowd.
"He grabbed it right out of my hand and cracked it right over my head. I
was in shock," said Scott Langley, 23, of Cambridge, who said he was
holding the cross in memory of death row inmates executed in Texas under Bush.
A chain of Gore backers stopped Nader supporters as they tried to move
closer to the main building, and some talked of hostility between the two
sides.
"I got the feeling they were standing there strictly to pick a fight," said
Nader supporter Thomas Leaf.
Earlier, some protesters paraded through Boston Common in giant puppet
costumes depicting Bush and Gore. Others, dressed in fake pearls and top
hats dubbed themselves "Billionaires for Bush or Gore," and satirically
praised the corporations helping to underwrite the debate.
They stopped at local offices of Fleet Bank, Fidelity Investments and
Verizon Communications. As marchers beat drums and distributed flyers to
lunchtime crowds, the "Billionaires" tried to enter the companies to
deliver "thank you" cards.
Other protesters objected to Gore's relationship with Occidental Petroleum,
which plans exploratory drilling a few miles outside the boundaries of a
U'wa Indian tribe reserve in Colombia. The U'wa believe oil exploration
will destroy their culture.
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Protesters Take Post-Debate Stage
At Least 16 Held as Tempers Flare
Boston Globe, October 4, 2000
Hundreds of protesters confronted State Police after last night's
presidential debate in Dorchester, bursting through barricades and
blocking roads as troopers in riot gear fought back with pepper spray and
billy clubs.
At least 16 of the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 demonstrators who converged
on the University of Massachusetts-Boston campus were arrested, State
Police said, although only about 1,200 of them took part in the
post-debate protests.
Soon after the debate ended at 10:30 p.m., a large group of protesters
overturned a barricade and gathered on University Drive within sight of
the debate venue, hurling fences into the roadway, State Police said.
The protesters - mostly supporters of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader,
who was not allowed to participate in the debate - sat in the road,
locked arms, and chanted as mounted State Troopers rode through the
group, attempting to disperse them. Meanwhile, other troopers pleaded
with the crowd to move off the roadway and allow about two dozen buses
through to pick up those in the news media and the audience.
Soon afterward, the police abandoned their pleas, dragging at least 10
protesters over barriers and spraying others with pepper sray. Some
officers also yanked metal barriers over protesters lying on the ground.
At that point, some anarchists began hurling stones, and one jumped onto
a parked van and tore off the windshield wipers, flinging them toward the
officers.
By 11:30, about 200 protesters remained, and State Police were
encouraging a peaceful end to their demonstration, saying that all
attendees had left UMass.
At 11:35, protesters started huddling in front of police officers,
discussing whether they should demand the release of arrested protesters
before heading home.
After 15 minutes of strategizing among protest leaders, Sean Nelson, 19,
a Boston University student, secured officers' assurance that protesters
would be released by 6 a.m. today, as long as they had no outstanding
warrants. The protesters then dispersed.
The scene was in stark contrast to the circus-like atmosphere that
prevailed earlier yesterday, as costumed demonstrators and placard-waving
protesters made their way peacefully to the campus.
But soon after sundown, the trouble started. Prior to the debate, some of
the arrests followed fistfights between rival political camps, State
Police said.
Then, still more were arrested when groups of demonstrators tried, and
occasionally succeeded, in knocking down barricades near the debate site,
prompting State Police to pull out nightsticks and make arrests.
''They're shouting. I just saw another arrest made; it was someone trying
to reach a barrier,'' State Police Captain Robert Bird said by telephone
during one of the night's more volatile moments. ''It's as orderly as
several thousand people behind a fence who don't want to be can be.''
Dominic Chavez, a Globe photographer covering the event, was injured when
a demonstrator allegedly slammed him in the back with a camera. He was
treated at Boston Medical Center. A few others were treated at the scene.
A state trooper and his horse were also injured in scuffles with
protesters.
One demonstrator, identified as Jonas Pool, 23, of Iowa, who said he
traveled to Boston to support Nader, was standing in front of the
barricade holding his hand aloft in a peace sign when several police
officers tried to take him into custody.
Pool turned toward the crowd, which grabbed him, and a brief tug of war
ensued. The crowd succeeded in pulling him back behind the barricade.
A short while later, about two dozen people stepped over the barricades
and toward a squadron of State Police in riot gear, while holding their
hands aloft in a peace sign.
For several minutes, it was a peaceful standoff. Then suddenly, the
police rushed the protesters, swinging batons and spraying pepper spray
into the crowd, forcing them behind the barricades. About 200 police
nearby in riot gear mobilized and moved toward the crowd, which then
backed off.
The tensions followed an incident-free day marked by nothing more severe
than traffic jams.
At 5:30 p.m., the height of the rush hour, the Southeast Expressway,
normally a clogged artery, was virtually deserted heading into the city.
Apparently, all the warnings of driving chaos did not fall on deaf ears.
Not that all the hubbub didn't turn a few rubber necks as the day
progressed. A contingent of motorcycle-riding troopers parked on the
shoulder of Interstate 93 near South Bay shopping center attracted plenty
of attention.
Three times, the troopers went from sideshow to main attraction, as they
halted traffic on the expressway to allow unobstructed rides for the
candidates' motorcades.
Near the University of Massachusetts at Boston campus, where debate
preparations spiced up the normally placid landscape, many a driver
slowed to gawk at the colorful contingent of protesters ambling down
Morrissey Boulevard from the Red Line T stop.
''Their sheer numbers are disrupting traffic a little bit because they're
spilling into Morrissey Boulevard,'' said Bird. ''But it's really been
relatively quiet.''
Adding to the mix, about 7,000 people were converging on the Bayside Expo
Center yesterday for Powersystems World, a computer convention planned 18
months ago - long before UMass was designated as a place for presidential
fur to fly.
''I couldn't get into my hotel room'' Monday night, said Mel Elgar, who
came to the convention from Ontario, Calif. ''They overbooked, and I
didn't guarantee with a credit card for late arrival.''
Charlie Dec, a spokesman for the convention, said his organization sent
its travel agents scrambling to secure entire blocks of hotel rooms when
UMass was chosen as a debate site.
''We haven't turned anybody away because of hotel rooms,'' Dec said,
''but it wasn't easy.''
Those who left their cars at the curb with hopes of securing a taxi were
in for a rude awakening.
''Every single cab except the ones that are broken down or have to get
inspected is on the road,'' said Helen Kates, a longtime dispatcher for
the Independent Taxi Operators Association.
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U.S. Troops in Colombia Threatened
By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press Writer
Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000
LARANDIA ARMY BASE, Colombia -- U.S. special forces stationed in this
sprawling army base near large concentrations of leftist guerrillas on
Sunday faced renewed threats from the insurgents.
But a general in Colombia said he has sufficient forces to repel any threat
to the U.S. forces who are training troops in a U.S.-aided drug war.
Concerns about the safety of the approximately 85 elite American soldiers at
Larandia were highlighted after Andres Paris, a commander of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was quoted as saying that
"all Colombian or foreign military personnel who are in the combat zones
will be military targets."
A general commanding a brigade of 4,800 Colombian troops in this mountainous
region of jungle and pasture land where troops and rebels frequently clash
said his force was sufficient to protect the Americans from the FARC. The
rebels have infiltrated combatants toward the exterior of the base to look
for weak points, said Col. Julian Villate, the base commander.
An Associated Press team, the first journalists to visit Larandia since the
American soldiers arrived two months ago, saw the special forces compound on
the base but was denied permission by the U.S. Embassy to interview or
photograph the troops.
The U.S. Army Green Berets and members of the 720th Special Tactics Group
from Pope Air Force Base, N.C., are training two counter-narcotics army
battalions under a $1.3 billion U.S. aid package to this South American
nation.
Paris' comments, posted Thursday in New Colombia News Agency, a web site run
by FARC supporters and considered a reliable source, echoed previous
statements by FARC commanders. They did not come as a surprise, said Raul
Duany, spokesman for the Southern Command, which is in charge of U.S.
military operations in Latin America.
"It's nothing we didn't expect or didn't know. It's a very difficult
situation down there," Duany said over the phone Sunday from the Southern
Command's headquarters in Miami.
Duany said under the U.S. troops' rules of engagement, they are authorized
to fire back if attacked or caught in a cross fire.
He refused to give specifics on how the military is reacting to Paris'
statement, but said U.S. forces' security is being constantly evaluated and
that "drastic protection methods" would be taken if necessary.
Gen. Javier Arias, commander of the Colombian army's 12th Brigade that
includes Larandia, insisted that the FARC's 3,000 combatants in the region
pose no direct threat to the base.
"We're not worried about security in Larandia," Arias said in an interview
Friday. "We have troops constantly on the move between the base and where
the rebels are."
Larandia is a two-hour drive west of a Switzerland-sized zone ceded by the
government to the rebels last year in an attempt to push moribund peace
talks forward. The rebels also have units to the north, west and south of
the base - the closest 9 miles away, according to Arias.
The U.S. troops toted loaded weapons whenever they left their compound:
either an assault rifle or even a pistol tucked into their shorts. They did
not leave the base itself.
The special forces, many of them Hispanics, train the Colombian soldiers in
advanced combat techniques. Except for their insignia, many of the Americans
are barely distinguishable from their Colombian counterparts.
When they returned to their compound - a cement building and a cluster of
large tents dotted with satellite dishes - through an opening in a roll of
concertina wire, the U.S. troops ejected the loaded clips from their rifles.
Under President Clinton's aid initiative, the Americans can only train the
Colombians and are barred from accompanying Colombian troops into combat.
There have been no reports of fighting in the immediate vicinity since the
Americans arrived at the base, located below mist-shrouded mountains a
40-minute drive from the provincial capital of Florencia.
But in July last year, there was a two-day battle between FARC rebels and
Colombian soldiers just 3 miles away in which 20 rebels were reportedly
killed and one government soldier wounded, Villate said.
There have been other firefights since then, 12 or more miles away, the base
commander said.
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FBI Releases Carnivore Documents to EPIC
<http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_pr.html>
Privacy Group Says Disclosure Insufficient
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
October 2, 2000
Contact: David Banisar, Senior Fellow, EPIC
WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation today released 565 pages
from government files on the Internet monitoring program known as
"Carnivore". The documents were disclosed to the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by
the privacy rights organization in Washington, DC.
Of the material released, nearly 200 pages were withheld in full and
another 400 pages were redacted, many completely except for the page
numbers. The source code to the Carnivore system was withheld.
According to the documents, the Carnivore program was conceived under the
name "Omnivore" in February 1997. It was proposed originally for a Solaris
X86 computer. Omnivore was replaced by Carnivore running on a Windows
NT-based computer in June 1999. Other documents include discussion of
interception of Voice Over IP (VOIP) and reviews of tests for performance
and recovery from attacks and crashes for both systems.
EPIC filed the FOIA lawsuit after the FBI revealed that it developed an
Internet monitoring system that would be installed at the facilities of an
Internet Service Provider (ISP) and would monitor all traffic moving
through that ISP. The Department of Justice announced a plan for
independent review, but EPIC's General Counsel said at the time that "There
is no substitute for a full and open public review of the Carnivore system.
The only way that the privacy questions can be resolved is for the FBI to
release all relevant information, both legal and technical."
The EPIC FOIA request seeks the public release of all FBI records
concerning Carnivore, including the source code, other technical details,
and legal analyses addressing the potential privacy implications of the
technology.
At an emergency hearing held on August 2, U.S. District Judge James
Robertson ordered the FBI to report back to the court by August 16 and to
identify the amount of material at issue and the Bureau's schedule for
releasing it. The FBI subsequently reported that 3000 pages of responsive
material were located, but it refused to commit to a date for the
completion of processing.
The Judge subsequently ordered the FBI to disclose records to EPIC every 45
days. Today EPIC received the first set of documents from the FBI.
Last week, the FBI announced that it had selected the Illinois Institute of
Technology Research Institute (IITRI) to review the system after many
academic institutions refused to accept the secrecy requirements that were
a condition of submitting a bid.
Marc Rotenberg, EPIC Executive Director, said today "We intend to pursue
the litigation until the relevant documents are disclosed. We do not
dispute the need of law enforcement to protect public safety or pursue
criminals in the online world. But the use of investigative methods that
monitor Internet traffic and capture the private communications of innocent
users raise enormously important privacy issues that must be subject to
public review and public approval."
EPIC is a public interest research organization in Washington, DC. More
details about the case are available at the EPIC Carnivore Litigation Page:
<http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/>.
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COPA panel wants billions more for cops
September 25, 2000
by Ben Charny
Spending billions more dollars for law enforcement and creating a porn-filter
testing group lead the list of likely recommendations to Congress from a
government-appointed commission charged with making the Web child-safe.
Members of the commission created by the Children's Online Protection Act
(COPA) are also expected to recommend that porn Web sites following
industry-imposed guidelines be immune from criminal prosecution if a child gets
access to smut.
The COPA commission met this week in Washington, D.C., to begin writing its
long-awaited report to Congress. It will meet once more in October to vote on
the report before presenting it to lawmakers.
Commission member Robert Flores, vice president of the National Law Center For
Children and Families, said a visit to GetNetWise.org helped convince him that
an independent body to review Web filtering software is necessary.
"If you go to (that site), you'll see a large number of technologies that are
available. Some make a number of claims," he said. "But, how do you distinguish
advertising claims vs. documented claims?"
More review
Filters are being reviewed, but by private groups such as Peacefire, which is a
self-proclaimed advocate of Internet free speech. Child advocate Enough is
Enough in Santa Ana, Calif., tried to create its own review boards, but it
proved too expensive.
"It has been something we've wanted to do for years," said Enough is Enough
Chief Operating Officer Monique Nelson, who testified before the commission two
months ago in San Jose, Calif.
While a dollar figure has not been set, the commission is expected to ask
Congress to dedicate billions of dollars more to law enforcement.
Flores said billions are needed just so some law enforcement agencies can catch
up to the Web stalkers, which some surveys suggest send unsolicited messages to
20 percent of all kids online.
He estimated that the current annual budget for federal cybercrime is less than
$200 million. It would take a yearly infusion of $1 billion to $1.5 billion for
the next four or five years "just to get us moving," he said.
Incentives sought
One of the other recommendations gaining consensus is to provide incentives,
such as immunity from criminal prosecution, for porn sites following industry
standards on child-proofing.
"If you try your best and do everything you can, then you should be immune from
prosecution," Flores said.
Commission Chairman Donald Telage, of Network Solutions Inc., said the
commission is also likely to recommend an intensive education program, for
parents, about the dangers lurking on the Internet.
The COPA commission isn't just getting a report ready for Congress. It is
fighting for its very future.
Congress created the commission, but failed to fund it. The commission
sometimes opens up meetings with pleas for donations. Many of the commissioners
are funding their own trips across the country to different hearings.
And then there is the infighting between commissioners themselves, making the
fact that they agree upon any issues something of a new thing for the group.
"Consensus, this group?" said Nancy Willard, director of Responsible Netizen, a
program administered by the Center for Advanced Technology in Education.
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POOR journalists of color seize media access at NAB convention
<http://www.sfbayview.com/frontpp.htm#a5>
by Lisa Gray-Garcia, POOR Magazine
San Francisco (PNN) - Thick gray fog descended on the POOR Magazine team of
poverty journalists as we jumped off the 14 Mission towards Moscone center,
the site of the National Association of Broadcasters convention. "Who gets
access? " Who Gets Heard?" our brown, black, pale yellow and bright white
hands clutched our handmade signs proclaiming our right to media access,
the broadcast airwaves, and jus' being heard.
Our first encounter was a staged piece of street theatre in collaboration
with Media Alliance and "los Cybrids," a group of digital performance
artists known for their radical art on race, class and gentrification.
"Hey Sweetheart, show me your breasts. ... Yeah you, with the sign," said
Renee Garcia, playing the role of Howard Sternum, a representative of the
"National Association of Brainwashers."
The role of Eddie Fritz, CEO of the NAB, was played by John Leanos replete
with bulging thighs and spontaneous regurgitation. Praba Pilar and Mario
Zapp played the roles of corporate females who aided and abetted the evil
white men in their mass media control, along with a representative from
Billionaires for Media Mergers.
And then ... Who gets Access? Who gets Heard? Suddenly the poor folks
seized their rightful access and took down the "Corporate Fat Cats,"
landing them in a squirming pile on Howard Street.
After we seized the mike, staff writers Leroy Moore, Kaponda, Leo Stegman,
Joseph Bolden, Anna Morrow, Barbara Huntley Smith, Liana Fabiani, Will
Steel and myself began to speak truth to power, i.e., the handful of
companies that control the airwaves. Limousines and Yahoo! taxicabs spit
out bunches of corporate media moguls as we, the unheard and independent
media, requested a voice: "What do we want? Access. When do we want it? Now!"
The POOR Magazine staff was followed by Janine Jackson, program director of
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, and Andrea Buffa, executive director of
Media Alliance, who summed up the NAB's tactics in an analogy to another
far too powerful lobby group. "The NAB is just like the NRA - but instead
of lobbying for guns, they lobby to keep the airwaves out of the hands of
the public."
After our official press conference was finished, the POOR staff embarked
on their next form of "Media in Action." We attached our press badges
(which stated that we were POOR Magazine reporters!) and walked past the
police barricades and into the polished floors of the Moscone Center North.
"We are reporters; let's report!" we murmured in unison.
As we descended onto the convention floor, our first encounter with access
denial was a whisper into a hand-held intercom by a security agent wearing
a stiff blue polyester suit. "Five sketchy looking characters just entered
the building ..."
Undaunted, we proceeded - through the shimmering chrome, glistening formica
and floor to ceiling posters of PAUL HARVEY and DR. LAURA - to the hall
where Colin Powell would be speaking.
"You can't come in without press credentials." A blue suited security man
in conjunction with a tan suited woman were shaking their heads in a
collaborative no!
"But we have press credentials." We all held up our badges.
"No, you need the press passes that we issue. You have to go downstairs for
those."
"OK." Once again we went down the escalator to another deeper escalator
into the bowels of the Moscone Center. We passed the signs and banners,
lunch counter and slightly curious attendees and beyond a red velvet
curtain into a long cement hall which would be our final destination.
"What publication are you from?" Another tan suited security woman queried
me on who we were as three other women and a Tommy Lee Jones/CIA-like NAB
official huddled in the corner while shooting furtive glances in our
direction. Meanwhile, several reporters from NBC, MSNBC, CNN and ABC
darted past us, picking up plastic badges hanging on sporty green
necklaces. At one point the Tommy Lee Jones man walked in and out and when
he returned he was followed by a San Francisco police officer, who
unbeknownst to me was almost arresting one of our reporters who made the
crucial mistake of taking a picture of the SFPD officer."
"We are from POOR Magazine. Here are our press badges." I enunciated my
words - savoring each consonant - intent on her hearing every syllable.
"But I don't know that mag-a-zine." She shook her head as she spoke in much
the same way all the people who have ever turned me down for an apartment,
welfare payments, a job or a loan have done.
I was tempted to say, "Well, you do nowwwww ... but instead I continued,
very seriously, very calmly, just like a game show host or a lawyer. "Well,
we can go on-line right now and you can see our news service." "OK." She
relented quickly, guiding me swiftly to the back of the room to a small
computer.
After waiting for several painful minutes, she printed a few pages of PNN
and we walked to the front of the room. As she stood over the registration
table shuffling through my forms, the huddle formed once again, eventually
motioning to my tan suited lady to come into the huddle. The huddle members
all looked quite relieved, shaking their heads and chuckling, and as I
inched nearer to them I heard them tell her, "Colin Powell has finished.
Give them passes."
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Gore and Bush Face Off in Exclusive Presidential Debate
<http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2000/2000L-10-03-01.html>
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 3, 2000 (ENS) - The first presidential
debate between Democratic candidate Vice President Al Gore and Republican
contender Texas Governor George Bush took place at the University of
Massachusetts tonight while thousands of demonstrators from half a dozen
factions clashed with police in the streets outside.
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Expert slams 'designer' babies
<http://itn.co.uk/news/20001004/britain/03baby.shtml>
A British medical expert has warned that the case of an American
couple who "designed" their baby to save the life of his older
sister raised serious ethical issues for the future of genetic
screening.
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Designer baby' sparks ethics row
<http://itn.co.uk/news/20001004/world/01baby.shtml>
Doctors in America have used genetic screening to ensure that a
couple's second child could provide a life-saving bone-marrow
transplant for their first.
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Test Tube Tech May Save Child
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39224,00.html?tw=wn20001004>
A Colorado couple uses a test-tube baby's genetic material to save
their daughter from a fatal bone marrow disease. The case highlights
the promise and ethical problems of parents choosing the traits of
their children.
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When cocaine walks Wall Street
<http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ.asp?/news/471907.asp>
One of Wall Street's darkest and ugliest secrets is the widespread use of
drugs
-- in particular cocaine -- among those who buy and sell stocks for a
living in the
high-pressure trading rooms of America's securities industry. By
Christopher Byron.
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