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...first answer to each??of this book's questions is facetious. Why do snails carry houses on their backs? Because they love to go camping. No! exclaim Olten's gallery of youngsters, rendered in a variety of amusing tones and 'tudes. The following page provides the real answer. Little readers joining in on the repeated joke will hardly notice how much they're learning. Watch out for the final question: the funny answer is also the real...
...time the heroin gets to the street pusher, it is in one-ounce lots of 25% heroin?the rest is usually milk sugar or quinine?that cost the pusher $500 each. The pusher further cuts the diluted drug into glassine packets of 5% heroin, which he sells for $5 each???the so-called "nickel bag"?to the user. The original kilo has now grossed $225,000 for suppliers, traffickers, pushers and peddlers. The first user often splits the nickel bag into even smaller quantities that he resells for $2 or $3, making a profit that he himself...
...effect has already done. London and Paris started a shouting match over whether or not De Gaulle had actually made such a proposal?and the curious case caused a new outbreak of Anglo-French hostility (see box following page). True or false?or, more likely, a bit of each???the affair was bound to embarrass the President by highlighting the rifts that still rend Europe...
...subsists largely on Pepsi-Colas, which are stocked in small refrigerators scattered throughout his quarters, including one in the headboard of his bed. Often he doesn't even know what day it is. A friend suggested giving him a set of seven pajamas with the day embroidered on each???in reverse writing so that he would just have to look in the mirror while shaving to see where he was in the week...
...tries. As a gambler knows, the law of averages does not preclude such a score once in a while although the long-run average will be 5 in 25. But suppose the clairvoyant maintains an average of 7.5 hits per 25 tries through 40 runs of 25 cards each???1,000 trials in all. The odds against such a performance resulting from chances are better than...