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Some airborne smugglers try to bring coke or heroin through Customs in their baggage, an old-fashioned but sometimes successful ploy. Another, potentially deadly, technique is to pack the drug in condoms and swallow them or insert them in body orifices. If the package breaks, the carrier is likely to die of an overdose. One day last November, inspectors at New York's Kennedy Airport caught 13 smugglers who had swallowed or inserted their contraband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Weissman, chairman of the committee on investment responsibility, moves that the council get rid of the word "at" and insert a "the" in a clause that reads: "facilitate [the] dialogue that is at the essence of the university." The council then debates the merits of this amendment, and a counter-amendment is proposed: "that" should be changed to "which." The first amendment passes, while the opposition's amendment is mercilessly defeated...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: As Time Goes By | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

...letter he had written to Barry charging the city's top financial managers with "incompetence, mismanagement . . . intimidation and indifference," and leaked it to local newspapers. After Frost's electronic lockout, his superiors announced they had bypassed his new password. Insisting that was impossible, Frost declared that he would insert clues to his password in newspaper classified columns and award prizes for solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whistle: Blowers Quick, What's the Password? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...finally see their boys fight back. As such, the film is nothing but an inferior version of Rambo II, in which our frustration about the Vietnam War was used and abused. But even Sylvester Stallone was able to come up with a remotely realistic story in which to insert the film's blind, patriotic manipulations...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: My Military Valentine | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

Harvard toasters are the only ones ever made that fancy themselves to be deadly time bombs when in use. Insert a few English muffins, heave down the industrial-spring-loaded lever, and ...Tick-Tick-Tick. I wonder what would happen if some law student accidentally left one of these things in his mailbox...

Author: By Barne C. Ellis, | Title: Charred Mornings | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

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