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...separate computer system links florists in New York with Candy-Gram shops in Oregon. Another yokes travel agents to airlines and hotels around the world. Others bind together bank tellers, brokers, car rental chains, defense contractors, factory robots, police departments, university labs, intelligence agencies and the vast U.S. military machine. Says Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the networking system called Ethernet: "It's like one big nervous system...
...ghettos, the economics of crack has created a lucrative cottage industry. Organized crime has not yet taken over the trade, police believe. Instead, a small-time dealer in Los Angeles can buy an ounce of cocaine for $1,000 to $1,500. Since each ounce contains 28 grams and each gram can produce up to six rocks that he can sell for as much as $25 each, the dealer can realize a profit of around...
Because of the booming supply, cocaine users are getting far more buzz for their buck. Even though U.S. coke consumption went up 11% in 1984, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the price has dropped from $100 a gram to as low as $60 in some cities. Meanwhile, well-stocked dealers have substantially boosted the purity of street cocaine, which makes the drug more attractive than ever...
...satisfying. But during the run, his wife of some 20 years left him; his two sons are far away and growing increasingly remote; and he is back in Hollywood pursuing some familiar bad habits: "For the past few weeks, he had been getting by on alcohol and a ten- gram stash of cocaine and he had begun to feel as though he might die quite soon...
...from earth and nearly three times as far from Halley's. The little ship and everything on it are built for survival, and with good reason. The dust particles around the nucleus are expected to strike Giotto with such great velocity that a speck weighing a tenth of a gram would penetrate an aluminum plate about 3 in. thick. To prevent damage, the side of the craft facing the comet is covered with a double shield, one made of aluminum and the other of Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests. Even then, Giotto is not expected to survive...