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Doctors were proud when they devised ways of using magnets to extract iron and steel objects from patients-usually nails and safety pins from children's gullets or stomachs. Now they are carrying the idea much farther by inserting magnets to get at hitherto inaccessible parts of the human body...
...handed me a printed list of drugs, kept in a desk drawer in Avatar's Rutland St. office in Roxbury. The drug list, ranging from "caapi, extract of banisteria caapi or seeds of wild rue," to sominex, had only LSD, marijuana, hashish, mescaline, and psilocybin marked as useful...
...gave up private law practice in Los Angeles two years ago to establish California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., which provides free legal help to the state's farm workers, many of them Mexican Americans. C.R.L.A. works through the law and tackles anything from predatory salesmen who extract $500 in time-payments from uncomprehending victims for $100 cameras, to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who tried vainly last year to curtail the program's influence. C.R.L.A. has won 85% of the 4,000 cases it has taken to court. The benefits, as Lorenz sees them, go far beyond the courtroom...
...double consciousness, or realizing that both Southern Myths are real. In itself, the recognition of both sides is not surprising. What is shattering is finding that one Southern town, one store, or one drawling person can fit into both schemes, and that by artful manipulation, an observer can extract the puree of both dreams from any given situation...
...drug is not patentable, and the substance occurs naturally in broad beans and velvet beans. A well-equipped chemical factory can easily extract...