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In Brazil's Congress, the investigators found that one of Goulart's Labor Party Deputies had made a fortune by adding 1,295 people to his personal payroll in return for a slice of their paychecks. A fellow congressman, one Tenorio Cavalcanti, 58, required almost no investigation: he...
The Harvard Review's issue on consciousness-expanding drugs turned out to be a veritable gold mine, as the Review spread as far as the opium dens of Hong Kong. Anything following was bound to be something of an anti-climax, although the editors tried to soften the anticipated thud...
Bats are not alone in being intermediate in their metabolic personalities between the poikilotherms and homotherms [i.e., cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals]; as everyone knows, certain other mammals are also able to pass the winter in a torpid state...Bears do not leave their dens for months, and eat...
After this, the audience knows that nothing painful, nothing honest, nothing real will be inflicted upon it. In Oliver twisted, the Thieves' Kitchen becomes an urban Sherwood Forest, with Robin Hood Fagin teaching his pickpocketeers to rob from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim...
With the army behind him, Diem could at last crack down on the Binh Xuyen and the sects. The Binh Xuyen's power was smashed when Diem closed the opium dens, gambling halls and bordellos, from which it drew its revenues, then fought the gangsters with armed force. To crush...