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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...
In Seattle, Truffles sells (besides fresh truffles at $12.81 per oz.) 60 different marmalades, 32 pastas, honey from 45 countries, 750 wines and a highly prized condiment known as Arizona champagne mustard sauce (used with meat and fish and as a glaze for ham). Houston's Jim Jamail & Sons imports...
"The great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a...
This is "concerned" photography, with a twist; for though no living photographer is more obsessed with his subject than Beard, he works out the obsession at a calculated aesthetic distance. Usually that is imposed by the view from a light plane. The most effective images in his mortuary chapel to...
Beard has in effect done for the elephant what the painter Francis Bacon -by no coincidence, the two men are close friends - did to the human body, but with the photographer's edge of documentary truth. It is unlikely that his images will save a single elephant. In a...