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...Amsterdam's junkies have increased to an estimated 7,000, Italy's from 1,000 to 6,000. Overdose deaths in Europe will top 300 by year's end. Yet supplies are so plentiful that street prices in Paris have dropped from $120 to $60 a gram in the past six months-thus making it cheaper to lure new addicts. Profits are enormous. A kilo of No. 4 heroin bought for $1,650 in Thailand or Burma commands $32,000 on the streets of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Heroin Rides an Orient Express | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

TCDD is so toxic, according to one scientist, that a single gram is capable of killing thousands of people. The gas can cause blistering, and damage to the liver, spleen, kidneys, respiratory tract and nervous system; it may also cause deformities in unborn children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Deadly Cloud | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...Flying Burrito Brothers and Keith Carradine. The Brothers without Gram Parsons, and Keith Carradine without talent, at Paul's Mall, tonight through August...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...current probe, Prosecutor Woodcock got court permission to exhume five of the bodies. Then he sent tissue samples off to different specialists, some of whom used detection techniques so subtle they can identify a substance weighing only a trillionth of a gram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death Follows Art | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Smellies King. One of the newest wrinkles in T shirts is the Shirt-O-Gram, which features in large capital letters a Western Union-style message. Cost: about $7 for up to 15 words. Californian Chris Engen, 27, who created Shirt-O-Grams, custom prints the shirtfront messages and sends them anywhere in the U.S. One typical message: DEAR BARRY. CONGRATULATIONS. THE RABBIT DIED. PLEASE CALL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The T Shirt: A Startling Evolution | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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