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...remarkably sensible perspective. After all, the reasons for conversion are economic: it is important for U.S. industry to compete in international markets, but there is no particular value in changing the weather report on the nightly news. For most Americans, it seems, an ounce of prevention was worth a kilogram of cure...
...Over the objections of former Gambino Boss Paul Castellano, who was gunned down on a crowded Manhattan street last December, authorities say, Gotti urged cronies like Lofaro to get more involved in drug trafficking. Then in 1984 Lofaro was arrested in upstate New York while attempting to sell a kilogram of heroin to an undercover detective...
...dollars' worth of poorly aimed cocaine packages fell upon an isolated farming village. The natives tried to make the mysterious substance into a whitewash for their huts but discovered it worked better as a foot powder and diaper-rash treatment. They began selling it for about $50 a kilogram (actual wholesale value: $30,000 per kg) until police heard about their windfall and carted away what was left of the drug...
...gaseous cloud released by several tons of methyl isocyanate blanketed the Indian community of 900,000 before anyone could escape. In the event of a similar Cambridge accident, however, a half kilogram of nerve gas emanating from ADL would have "some impact, but nowhere near the effect of the thing in India," says Edmund Crouch, a Harvard physicist who lent his risk-assessing skills to the local advisory group...
Indeed, the choices are unappetizing. The price for a kilogram of ham, for example, would rise from the current $5.78 to $7.36 under plan 1, to $7.89 under plan 2 and to $8.42 under plan 3. Edam cheese would go from $2.10 per kg now to $2.42 under plans 1 and 2 and to $2.65 under plan 3. The particularly large price increases of plan 3 would be partly offset by higher subsidies to below-average incomes. While plans 1 and 2 would boost incomes of less than $74 a month by $3, plan 3 would provide a $4 subsidy...