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Up Against the Wall--'I can feel it starting now...it's good stuff, ' says Israel Colon, 41, an addict in Hartford for 30 years, moments after a former stock broker and fellow addict helped him shoot up. Like many addicts, he puts the works in his…

Someone's in the Kitchen- In the kitchen of her Oak St. apartment, 30-year old Darlene Westover takes her 'wake-up' the first shot of the day. Darlene's wake-up is a speedball, a mix of heroin and cocaine. She is from a small town and is like alot…

In the shadow of the Capital-Oak St. in Harford is notorious for its shooting galleries and prositiution as well as drug dealing. On the porch of a well known gang of drug dealers, a young man hangs out while a friend goes in to the house to…

Some of the characters who nightly grace the 16 domino tables around the Caribbean American Club are bizarre, most , like Gladstone Hamblin are working men who come to the club to blow off steam. 'We come to play because we want to show our…

When the sun sets, Alexis opens the window to the apartment to let the light in so she can do her makeup as she gets ready for the evening. While she goes out to work on the streets every day,Vanity either works from the apartment or works a…

When Mike Weisenberg got to sit next to Pete Rose on the bench of his softball team, the temptation was too much for Weisenberg, so he pulled out his autofocus camera and snapped a shot of the two of them together, buddies forever. NOT.

Larry Bird is fouled and kept out of the paint during a physical game with the New York Nets' Phil Ramsey. The NBA game has become much more physical over the years and body laying has become part of the game.

The moment he won his first major tennis tournament victory, the Volvo International, Peter Korda of Hungary reacts with ecstasy by falling to the ground and crying with joy.

Michael Gray, one of the best strikers in the league, prepares to hit the ball. He has been known to set records in minutes at bat, sometimes hours, and numbers of runs, sometimes in the triple digits for one game.

Isreal Mandez, 66, soared through the air over the Farmington River when temperatures soared late in the spring of 1991. Along with his family, Mandez spent all day over and in the river trying to keep cool from the heat.