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...produced per year, however, only about 60 tons reach legal collection stations. Practically none of the crop is used for domestic narcotics production: the Turks themselves have never had an addiction problem of any consequence. Instead, some 90 tons of poppies are exported illegally, in the form of opium gum, primarily to Marseille. There, well-financed hoodlums-many of them Corsicans-supervise its refinement into morphine base and heroin for shipment to the U.S. Of all the heroin currently reaching the U.S. with disastrous effects, 80% is believed to originate in Turkey...
...traditional school I came from, you just sat at a desk copying from a book and all that junk. It was a big game to see if you could chew bubble gum all day and sometimes stick it on your nose without the teacher noticing. Here you learn responsibility...
...because of its flavors that Baskin-Robbins is unslurpassed. The company's polka-dotted pleasure palaces offer 31 constantly changing tastes. Right now, for example, ice cream cravers can commit caloric immolation with Blueberries 'n Cream, Pink Bubble Gum and Boysenberry Cheesecake. There is a newly consummated marriage of Bananas 'n Strawberries, a tangerine-vanilla merger called Tanganilla, plus the usual array of popular holdovers from months past: Caramel Rocky Road, German Chocolate Cake and Pistachio Almond Fudge, among others...
...game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England, the upper classes are "unaggressively handsome, that is to say, somewhat wanting, like an underdeveloped photograph...
...baffling, Perhaps that's the best way to describe working at the CRIMSON. At first I felt I should chew gum and wear spike heels. To my relief that was not required or even expected. I could wear blue jeans and be myself although a somewhat foggy version. But oh the pain of the subtler forms of secretarial stereotype. Wouldn't it be easier, I have often thought, had it been clear from the cutest that I was going to be eaten alive, instead of being forced to sift ambiguities of kindly but well aimed jests? Consider the following secretarial...