Volume 45, Number 20 · December 17, 1998
Just Say 'Wait a Minute'
By Malcolm Gladwell
The Fix
by Michael Massing
Simon and Schuster, 335 pp., $25.00
Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
by Mike Gray
Random House, 251 pp., $23.95
On a hot, muggy night in the summer of 1976, Ron and Marsha 'Keith' Schuchard held a thirteenth-birthday party for their daughter in the backyard of their suburban Atlanta home. The Schuchards were English professors, comfortably middle class, and they worried about their daughter. Her personality had suddenly taken a turn for the worse. She was moody and indifferent and only wanted to hang out with her friends. When she asked for a party, the Schuchards were briefly encouraged, because they thought she was coming out of her shell. But as the night wore on, they grew more and more alarmed.
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