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...Johnson movement in 1967 a movement whose success stunned political leaders. Lowenstein was also one of the first to take on the evils of racial discrimination in Mississippi and organize students against the war in Vietnam. He was an outspoken opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa, a lighter for individual rights in the Soviet Union, and a dedicated critic of what he termed the "institutional inertia" of Congress and the United Nations--a stance that earned him seventh place on the Nixon White House "enemies list...
...officials have reported a lighter than expected usage; average usage is two hourse per day unit, said Lewis A. Law, director of the Science Center...
...Someone apparently threw an incendiary device through the back door into a junior's closet," causing flames like "a huge butane lighter," he said...
...observers with the frustrating sense that their impact was short-lived. After the graduating class had tossed their caps into the air and filed out of the Yard, the only lasting effect organizers could claim for their months of work was that the University's coffers were a little lighter...
...cocaine. It is customarily smoked in a small glass water pipe, often filled with rum instead of water. The bowl is usually fitted with several thicknesses of fine steel mesh so that the precious drips of melting coke are fully burned. A butane torch may be used, although a lighter or plain matches will do, to apply steady heat on the pipe's bowl and vaporize the free-base. (Accidents, not surprisingly, are common. Comedian Richard Pryor nearly died in 1980 in a mishap at the end of a free-basing binge: his rum spilled, ignited...