Word: glue
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Exeter first caught one of its students sniffing glue about six or seven years ago. They investigated, called up a Harvard expert and found out it was a dangerous trip. The student was expelled...
...school. Now the slack on the cultural lag has pulled tight for those two schools; and while they glimpse the development of political activism on their campuses, their students are trying out the tragi-comic scene of dropping, blowing, and shooting pot, acid, hash, speed, belladonna, sunflower seeds, airplane glue, freon, Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, Paragoric Pall Malls, Romilar, and Dr. Schein's Asmador Powder...
...soon found that the moth opens its cocoon by wetting it with some kind of liquid that softens the glue holding the silk threads together. Kafatos discovered that a certain drug made the liquid appear on the moths' face, even when they were not trying to escape from a cocoon, and collected the liquid efficiently by applying the drug. After realizing that the liquid must contain some material in addition to salt and water, Kafatos guessed that an enzyme, a chemical agent that helps break down or "digest" other chemicals, was the liquid's active element...
...Kafatos also found concentrated enzyme solution in the maxillae's cells, which squeeze the solution out through fine tubes leading to the surface of the maxillae. The enzyme, mixed with the liquid of the old silk tubes, gets painted over the cocoon's tip, thus dissolving the cocoon's glue and enabling the moth to push the strands apart and escape...
Those who stay behind are the truly dispossessed, the old, the ill and, most deleteriously, the alienated young who, in the phrase of Newark Detective Charles Meek, himself a Negro, "dance their hips off, turn on to booze, narcotics, airplane glue, girls." To them, a steady job, in the slang of the ghetto, is "slave," and no amount of youth-corps training at "skills centers" can help them. Many of the jobs open to these youths cannot match either the income or the romance of the traditional ghetto occupation: petty crime...