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OxyContin on the Rise
(Ventura County Star, 12/15/2002)
Methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine and heroin are drug names with which most parents are familiar. But in the past few years they've had to learn about one more — OxyContin, a time-release painkiller that hit the market in 1995 and has since become a focus of abuse and controversy.
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The Bradbury Years
(Ventura County Star, 11/03/2002)
Feared for reasons that are part myth and part reality, Michael Bradbury helped inspire the unofficial, cautionary motto of Ventura County — "Come on vacation, leave on probation."
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Murdock's War
(Ventura County Star, 6/16/2002)
When the powerful and now legendary director of oil giant Occidental Petroleum, Armand Hammer, befriended David Murdock in the early 1980s, he probably hoped it would be the beginning of a mutually beneficial relationship. It wasn't.
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Wal-Mart is No. 1
(Ventura County Star, 2/17/2002)
It's another day at Wal-Mart, which means another semi-truck of merchandise — more than $70,000 worth of products — is about to be pulled from shelves. Standing like Alexander the Great over a domain of more than 4,300 stores and 1.2 million employees, Wal-Mart is in its own world.
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Longtime HIV Victim's Life
(Ventura County Star, 12/2/2001)
Doug Halter was screaming north on the Grapevine in the eerily tall shadows of dawn with nothing but road and horizon ahead when he realized he was probably going to die of AIDS.
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