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With fingers lighter than a Luna moth's wings, Timothy Mack has spent 13 years spiriting wallets from the pockets and purses of Los Angelenos, an artful dodger's career that has been interrupted by 20 arrests and two jail terms...
...series of controlled experiments lasting three months, the scientists gave 160 rats a marijuana extract and THC. a synthetic form of the drug. The preliminary results were dramatic. Twelve of the 40 rats given the strongest doses of pot died during the tests. Even those given lighter doses showed signs of bizarre behavior. As many as half the rats tested developed tremors...
...employees about past transgressions on the news. Among the sequences that have drawn the investigators' attention are shots of an Idaho forest blaze that reports say were enhanced by setting afire trees in the foreground. Another: an allegedly staged closeup in Viet Nam where a Marine touched a lighter to a thatched roof for added drama in an already dramatic story on the burning of a village...
...this case nitrogen-that have been stripped of their electrons and accelerated to tremendous velocities. By shooting these tiny bullets into a plastic target rich in hydrogen atoms, the Berkeley team was able to dissect the laboratory-produced cosmic rays. The collisions fragmented the nitrogen nuclei into every element lighter than nitrogen in the periodic table. By analyzing the results of this and similar experiments, physicists hope to bolster their meager store of knowledge about not only the atomic nucleus but also the pulsars and supernovae in which cosmic rays are thought to be born. "It opens up a whole...
...example, have more readily adopted blacks than Indian or Mexican kids. Asian children are often welcomed in the South, though blacks are usually not. A study in Britain recently found that some T.R.A. parents tended "to deny their child's color, or to say he was growing lighter, or that other people thought he was suntanned and did not recognize him as colored. Sometimes the reality was fully accepted only after the very light child had grown noticeably darker after being exposed to bright sunlight on holiday...