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...Goodwin, nonetheless, alcohol is not just a harmless stimulus to creativity. He points to the obvious fact that a man may use it self-destructively, as did Fitzgerald. In such cases, as Baudelaire said about Edgar Allan Poe, alcohol becomes a weapon "to kill something inside himself, a worm that would...
Agency officials now realize that mercury changes its potency in water; through a complex chemical reaction, the relatively harmless inorganic form is transformed into deadly methyl mercury. Minute amounts are picked up by microorganisms, which are then eaten by small fish, which in turn are eaten by large predatory fish like pike and pickerel. When humans eat these fish, they can receive dosages of methyl mercury massive enough to cause blindness, brain damage, and even death...
...since the story of the Third World today must be that of an angry anti-colonial revolution working itself out, our liberal commitment to order, although apparently harmless at first glance, is objectively counter-revolutionary. And we attack the CFIA because we believe that no force, no matter whether it wears a uniform or not, has a right to tamper with the process of social liberation that revolutionary change opens up to the people of the old colonial empires. And of course we have learned from Vietnam what the next step is if peaceful counter-revolutionary attempts fail...
...possibility of using pressurized water or liquid waste to release this pent-up seismic energy. At two carefully studied sites in Colorado, liquid injections have been found to "lubricate" locked fault systems. This allows the plates to resume sliding past each other, setting off small but relatively harmless energy-dissipating tremors...
Unproved, too, was the assumption that the gas would hydrolize and be rendered harmless under the 31-ton-per-sq.-in. pressure at the ocean bottom. Still, for lack of a reasonable alternative, Judge June Green ruled in favor of the Army's plan, permitting the dumping to proceed, although an appeal from her decision is still pending...