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...kernels to get laetrile--active ingredient: amygdallin--and they smuggle it across the U.S. border to patients in the States. A man named Ernest T. Krebs Sr., M.D., first administered the drug in the twenties and Dr. Krebs junior followed his father in 1951, and claimed he could effectively inject the stuff. Trouble is, laetrile breaks down into cyanide, and the Food and Drug Administration has never approved its use. The FDA also says that it can't allow the marketing of quack medicines...
...ingenious scheme. They suggested drilling a row of three deep holes about 500 yds. apart, along a potentially dangerous fault. By pumping water out of the outer holes, they figured they could effectively strengthen the surrounding rock and lock the fault at each of those places. Then they would inject water into the middle hole, increasing fluid pressure in the nearby rocks and weakening them to the point of failure. A minor quake-contained between the locked areas-should result, relieving the dangerous stresses in the immediate vicinity. By repeating the procedure, the scientists could eventually relieve strains over...
...somewhat grandly refers to as his "living canvases." "I call it Doo Dah art as a takeoff on Dada art," he says. "I didn't set out to create an art form, although I think it has become one." What he did set out to do was to "inject vitality and fun onto the national scene after the dark years of war and scandal...
...they could live with. A new agency, the Municipal Assistance Corporation ("Big Mac"), was created to restore the city's credit and to monitor its budget and borrowing practices. Because five of its voting members are appointed by the Governor and four by the mayor, the corporation will inject the state government into city affairs. Big Mac will receive regular reports on the city budget so as to be able to sound the alarm if the city turns profligate anew. Current-expense items now make up 40% of the capital budget: over the next decade they will...
...capturing the character of the Hollywood hangers-on, those people who come to funerals and sit in the back row nervously tapping their autograph books with their pens, their eyes gazing mindlessly into space, nervous smiles on their faces, waiting for some big star to arrive and inject some excitement into their lives. Their relationship with the film idols is a symbiotic one, of the sort that Norman Mailer described in his biography of Marilyn Monroe, a sexual excitement that feeds the emotional needs of the star and that makes her feel all the more alluring, thereby upping the ante...