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Larry Parnell, public information officer of the Department of Corrections said yesterday the maximum security block of Walpole is closed to all outsiders and 168 inmates are locked in their cells for all but about 15 minutes a day. Because the purpose of the lock-up is to cut down on violence by isolating the men, the 22 volunteers who tutor in the closed section are not allowed...
...When you lock up people without windows, 23 hours a day for several weeks, they are affected physically and mentally. They come out bitter," Jackson said. "I think this time we are going to see more violent results and a more violent response," he added
...been with Tiffany, the snob queen of Fifth Avenue and points south and west (it also has stores in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Beverly Hills and San Francisco). Last week Tiffany surprised almost everybody by agreeing to sell its whole business?lock, stock and bauble. The buyer will be Avon Products, Inc., the door-to-door giant that knows a lot more about cold cream than carats. Selling to such a mass-not-class company would seem to betray a rare streak of egalitarianism in Tiffany Chairman Walter Hoving, whose often stated political views would make Marie Antoinette's sound like...
Snyder and his co-workers discovered in 1973 that the nerves of the brain and spinal cord contain specific sites to which opiates must bind in order to produce their effect. Morphine and similar drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced...
Chafin said there was no sign of forced entry into the library or into either of the rooms where the coin machine and safe are located. "The building was under lock and key," he said...