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Taylor said that a mouse uses 15 times more energy per gram of muscle than a horse running at the same speed...
America's national defense and prestige have risen even more conspicuously. Our support for the British defense of the Falkland Islands, the selfless service of Marines as a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, the lifting of the senseless Soviet gram embargo, the election of a free government in H. Salvadot and the advent of peace negotiations there, the withdrawal of martial lass restrictions upon the people of Poland, and marked growth in relations with Communist China ill represent significant international achievements...
...sides and cast the swing vote to uphold important New Deal acts, including the National Labor Relations Act and a bill establishing Social Security old-age benefits. Another Justice, Willis Van Devanter, one of the conservative "Four Horsemen" who had been most ; resolutely opposed to F.D.R.'s pro" gram, announced his retirement. The New Deal was saved. The court-packing plan died in Congress...
...principal negotiations throughout 1983 were not between the U.S. and the Soviet Union but be tween the White House and Congress. The beleaguered MX pro gram was about to run a gauntlet of votes on the Hill, and an increasingly assertive group of Congressmen made it clear that they would continue to support funding only if the Administration adjusted its START proposal to take account of their ideas about what constituted sound arms control...
Call it "speed," "crank" or "poor man's coke," the powder produces a cocaine-like high at half the price. Methamphetamine, at $60 a gram, is the discount drug of choice on the West Coast and a multimillion-dollar-a-year business for a new form of organized crime, a California-style Cosa Nostra on wheels. "We've got contract murders, interstate narcotics transactions, shipments of stolen property, cars and weapons," asserts U.S. Marshal Budd Johnson, member of a San Diego drug task force, the Organized Special Investigation Team (O.S.I.T.). "The Hell's Angels today...