Word: crystallizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Americana mini-article that spoke of the orbiting astronauts' seeing a crystal beauty in their body wastes in space [Jan. 16] disturbed my idea of the breathtakingly unpolluted realm of the cosmos. One man's heaven is another man's septic tank...
...dilemma with their terrorists. If they enact tough laws against radical violence, they are "Nazis again." If they do not, social order might fray to the point that real and dangerous repression would become inevitable. As John Donne wrote. "It takes so little poison to crack the crystal...
...year-old firm of Guiselin, which embroidered Napoleon's uniforms, did up 13 outfits for Bokassa, including the 32-lb. coronation robe with its 785,000 pearls, 1,220,000 crystal beads and train. Total cost...
Angel dust is the most common name. It is also known as goon, busy bee, crystal, hog, elephant tranquilizer and superjoint. By any name, phencyclidine (PCP) is the most dangerous drug to hit the streets since LSD became widely available a decade ago. Its use is growing rapidly; a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) study found that nearly a third of the young patients reporting to drug-treatment centers have tried PCP and one-fifth used it regularly. Angel dust has been linked to hundreds of murders, suicides and accidental deaths-214 last year in the Detroit area alone...
Fluoride ions work into the crystalline structure of the tooth surface and make the structure a more perfect and thus more stable crystal. The tooth is therefore less susceptible to decay by acid attack. (Tooth decay is largely caused by acid dissolution of enamel. Acid is a byproduct of food decay...