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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This money, which Stare says totals about $10,000 a year (a quarter of his University salary of $40,000), is the most controversial he handles: consumer advocates criticized these ties after his report to a Senate subcommittee in 1971 calling breakfast cereals "good foods" because they contain less saturated fat and cholesterol than other breakfast foods...
...lines. By this "graph" system, each country became a point; boundaries between countries became lines linking the dots. Painstakingly examining every imaginable map that could be fashioned out of these points and lines, Appel and Haken concluded that no matter how complex the map was, it had to contain at least one of 1,936 basic forms-or, in the jargon that helps keep mathematics mysterious, reducible configurations-that they had identified. Then they fed the forms into a computer and asked, in effect, whether all possible maps containing these configurations could indeed be made with only four colors...
Many of the cigarettes are imported from India, some under the name of Mint Bidis. These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed. It can be highly poisonous in large doses and yields strong hallucinatory drugs. One patient, who arrived at the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within...
...highs, Siegel reports an even more abundant choice: he examined 396 herbs and spices available singly or blended. Although 43 of them contain psychoactive agents, most are so weak that only heavy overindulgence is likely to produce mental effects requiring medical treatment. Yet one California tea tripper who made his own brew from Jimson weed "had hallucinations with scenes of demons, devils and voodoo people chasing him." He wandered barefoot in the woods for hours, over nettles and thorns that lacerated his feet and left them bloody, but felt no pain. He set fires to keep away the voodoo people...
...coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently tightened its regulations and now prohibits the sale of teas made from sassafras if they still contain its essential oil, safrole, a suspected cause of cancer. But not one of the plethora of regulatory agencies in Washington appears to have responsibility for the hundreds of other teas and smokes that are freely peddled in health-food stores and "head shops." The FDA says the teas are not sold as foods and are therefore beyond its jurisdiction. The Federal Trade Commission, unaware of false advertising, does not contemplate any action. Neither does...