Word: ethereally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper to electronic blips, is at the same time an advance in erasing. In the electronic age erasing has become literally effortless: it takes an act of commission -- you must command your computer to SAVE -- to retain information. Simple omission, or an electrical storm, turns computer thoughts to ether...
...seat in the balcony of the operating room, transfixed for hours by amputations and appendectomies. Back home, while his father was at the office, he would persuade his mother to help her precocious only child round up stray cats and dump them into a sterile trash can with an ether-soaked sponge so that he could perform exploratory surgery. He brags that he never lost...
...chemicals seized during Operation Primavera were stored in standing tanks or 55-gal. drums. In some cases the drums were stacked 15 ft. high, creating Andean peaks of testimony to the proportions of the smuggling operation. Ethyl ether, for example, is essential to the final processing of cocaine base into a white hydrochloride powder. The manufacture of ethyl ether has been outlawed in Colombia, and importation is closely regulated. A 55-gal. drum of ethyl ether that sells for $500 in the U.S. fetches more than $12,000 in Colombia. Says Alfonso Barragan, president of the Colombian Society of Chemical...
...contraband chemicals are not all from the U.S., or even from other industrialized nations. Much of the ethyl ether was manufactured in Brazil. The potassium permanganate, normally used as a water purifier, came from China, which is the world's leading producer...
...chemicals manufactured in the U.S. may be another matter, at least in the future. Last year the U.S. passed a new ( law, which will take effect in the next few months, requiring closer supervision of the overseas sales of chemicals used in the production of cocaine, including ethyl ether and acetone...