Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coke is found on the job as well as off. A busy Los Angeles lawyer says he uses "a lot" of it "because it helps drive me through a night's work, through a lot of grinding case preparation." Says a counselor at an upper-crust prep school in Massachusetts: "I'd say 10% to 15% of the kids here use cocaine with some regularity." A sun-bleached woman student at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus confesses: "I took all my finals coked out last semester, and I heard a lot of sniffing...
...were identified as agents of a new British firm called Single Point Security Ltd., then released on the grounds that no immigration laws were violated. They were hired by John Miller, a British ne'er-do-well and hanger-on at the fringes of London's upper crust. Miller claimed he had been paid nearly $70,000 by an unknown benefactor for advance rights to the story and film rights of Biggs' capture. Explained Miller: "I have no personal vindictiveness against Biggs. I guess he robbed his train for the same reason we're doing this...
...night in November 1963, four mop-topped lads from Liverpool strode triumphantly onto the stage of London's Prince of Wales Theater before an audience of upper-crust fans that included the Queen Mother herself. As TIME quoted the group's lanky, irreverent leader: "Those of you in the cheaper seats, clap. The rest of you, rattle your jewelry." With that remark, John Lennon made his first appearance in the pages of TIME. As the years went by, Lennon and his fellow Beatles have turned up countless times in the magazine-and in the lives of a fortunate...
...energy company executives are organizing new drillings for oil and gas all along the Overthrust Belt, a wide twist of rocky ground that stretches 2,300 miles from northwestern Montana through southern Arizona. The Overthrust Belt was formed eons ago, when two tectonic plates of the earth's crust heaved and crunched together, crinkling one plate over the other. Geologists have known for decades that the region hid pools of oil and gas some 12,000 to 20,000 feet below the earth's surface, but exploration and drilling had proved too expensive...
Examining camel remains recovered from local abattoirs, the scientists found the answer. Camel noses are filled with many tiny winding passageways, moistened with glandular secretions. As the camel loses water, the secretions dry and form an absorbent crust. This crust soaks up moisture coming from the lungs. During inhalation, the stored moisture is carried back into the lungs. In short, the camel saves water not in its hump but in the folds of its prodigious shnoz, which cover an area of roughly 1,100 sq. cm, vs. only 12 sq. cm for the average human...