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Leonard pointed out that the globe is already awash in commercial chemicals that could readily be "weaponized" by any country that wanted to cheat on a ban. Many of the gases and agents that caused 1,300,000 deaths or injuries in World War I are now available by the carload for commercial purposes. Several countries produce substantial quantities of phosgene, a "choking agent" now used in plastics, paint and pharmaceuticals. Ten countries, ranging from the Common Market nations to Communist China, produce a yearly total of more than 1,000,000 tons of hydrogen cyanide, a deadly "blood...
...machine," Goines testified. "Then I walked over to the desk drawer, got my .22-cal. revolver, and I went over and shot the machine dead! After I fired the shot, I looked at that machine and I said, That's the last time you're going to cheat anybody.' " The municipal judge was not amused; he fined Goines $160 and gave him ten days in jail for disorderly conduct, drawing a gun and firing it within city limits. Goines had obviously touched a responsive chord, however, among everyone who has ever been bamboozled by machinery. As Goines...
...hung-up to function well. Most rules, especially those that set minimal standards, are only a problem to a small minority, at least in a school which can be quite selective in its admissions policy. If we stopped being paternalistic about students, "making sure" they do not somehow cheat themselves in terms of how much we think they should be profiting form Harvard, the rest of the community would have simple life and hardly miss rules it does not need...
...Viet Nam Veteran. Drafted to defend a dubious cause in which he has no interest, into an Army whose officers may cheat him, to fight through a hell of swamps and heat on behalf of a corrupt government whose reluctant troops are incompetent-only to return, quick or dead, to a homeland where the enemy is encouraged by his contemporaries and many of his legislators and his own sacrifices are ridiculed. No Moon...
...years. The pro and the amateur barge around the gaudy streets of a meticulously reconstructed 1910 Chicago, hungry for trouble. Ben treats each new experience as if he were staring down the well of life. One time he falls in and drowns. But if life is a cheat, death is a double-dealer. On a morgue slab, Ben is given a dose of Adrenalin by a quack. In an outrageous parody of the Lazarus scene dear to so many biblical spectacles, Ben rises, so full of life that he quivers like a tuning fork for hours...