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Several dozen "smart bars" have opened around the country, replacing beer and margaritas with Memory Fuel, Fast Blast and Mind Mix -- amino-acid cocktails that, as one user sees it, "help restore the power edge that people lose as they get older." Smart stuff is also the drug of choice at "raves" -- '60s-style happenings now popular on the West Coast. But despite the mounting enthusiasm, many scientists say the only thing smart about these substances is the way they've been marketed. "Smart drugs," asserts Dr. James McGaugh, director of the center for the neurobiology of learning and memory...
Thomas sashays along, giggling impishly, working the mid-afternoon crowd like a town mayor on acid. When he sees a friend--which is often--he breaks off his monologue for an ecstatic hug and a shriek: "Hiiii!" "You look wonderful!" "I love your hair...
...Clean Air Act, will allow T.V.A. and the Duquesne Light Co. of Pittsburgh to spew larger quantities of sulfur dioxide into the air while WP&L reduces its emissions. The arrangement is probably the first of many, and it should help lower the overall cost of curbing acid rain, since some utilities may opt to buy less costly rights now and delay more expensive efforts to cut back pollution...
...sold like a used car," says Christopher Blythe of the Citizens Utility Board, a Wisconsin consumer-protection group. "What's next, the L.A. police department trying to buy civil rights credits from Wisconsin?" While this trading system may increase the chance that some regions will suffer from more acid rain, it should encourage a nationwide cleanup of SO2, which the Clean Air Act wants to reduce by 10 million tons a year. "I'm not quite sure what people are complaining about," says Daniel Dudek, senior economist for the Environmental Defense Fund. "We want to accomplish our environmental goals with...
...post office, bought a roll of stamps each and then we went to Bob Slate to pick up some double-bond, acid-free ivory electronic cream Watermark paper. You have to spend money to make money, right? When we mailed our letters, we said a prayer over the mailbox (if the shema could get Moses out of the desert, it should be able to get us out of Boston for the summer) and we waited...