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(Archived document, may contain errors) 672 September 12,1988 STRATEGY FOR A DRUG-FREE AMERICA A SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION As the transcript of this symposium goes to press, the House of Representatives is considering a major Omnibus Drug Act, with Senate consideration soon to begin. As is typical in an election year, the rush to complete action on key legislation makes it difficult if not impossible, to see clearly what is happening until the bills already have been passed.

She was probably just in her mid-teens. which meant that by the time jesus was doing his public ministry, maybe she was 45. >> joseph, jesus' earthly father, is perhaps the most mysterious figure of all. by the time jesus has begun his public ministry, joseph has vanished from the story. that has led to speculation that joseph, a carpenter by trade, was many years older than mary. life in the nazareth of jesus' day was hard. today, a group of biblical scholars and archaeologists have built nazareth village to give a better sense of just what daily life in the nazareth of jesus' time was like. ...

He's wasted up there in nazareth. >> it was a mission, the gospels say, that jesus thought more important than his earthly family. for when they had departed for nazareth, jesus was still in the temple. >> and on the way home, mary and joseph suddenly realized after a few days that jesus is missing. this always struck me as somewhat like "home alone." and they come back and they discover him in the temple. and mary is very upset and says, how could you do this? >> jesus, in his 12-year-old, know-it-all state says, "well, didn't you know, i needed to be about my father's business?" and he under...

Historians are debating is the christmas card scene of his humble birth in a manger, heralded by a star in the east and attended by three wise men. it's only mentioned by matthew and luke, and they don't always agree. so is any of it true? scholars say yes, to a degree. >> when we look at the gospel of matthew and the gospel of luke, we can see that there are about 12 pieces of information, 12 facts, that they share in common, that they both know ability jesus' early years. they both know that his mother is mary, that the father or stepfather is joseph, that they're from the family of david, t...

>> sadly, the birthplace of the man christians call the of peace is often a war zone, as it has been for centuries. ♪ >> but the manger that generations of pilgrims have sought out is a bit of a shock. a stone grotto that doesn't look much like a cozy stable. caves like this one pock mark the region where bethlehem lies. but one scholar suggests that we've got the wrong address. there is another bethlehem, one that borders joseph and mary's home territory to have nazareth. >> that suggests to me that this is the bethlehem that we ought to be looking at instead of bethlehem of judea. >> it is...