Evaluation:
Published: 03.10.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Built for Speed', 1.
  • Essays 'Built for Speed', 2.
  • Essays 'Built for Speed', 3.
  • Essays 'Built for Speed', 4.
  • Essays 'Built for Speed', 5.
  • Essays 'Built for Speed', 6.
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Built for Speed?
Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place in the lexicon of 'party' drugs. Hailed by nocturnal adventurers, condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream or an addictive nightmare?
by Brian Otto
Here at the end of the millennium, the pace of modern life seems fleeting -- a whirl of minutes, hours and days. In dealing with the changes, humans have equipped themselves with the tools to move faster, more efficiently. At the same time a dependence for the marketing, high-speed transportation and pharmacology of this modern age has evolved. In a race to outdo our…

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