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Manic Escalation. Both the wisdom and the effectiveness of this strategy are open to serious challenge. If it succeeded, it would lock the West for long years into paying for its oil high prices that might not hold up in an open market. Anyway, the oil producers for the moment show little interest in settling for any price other than the highest they can get. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran has said that a fixed price for oil would be acceptable only if the West could also guarantee fixed prices for the goods that it sells to oil producers...
...long been known that these messages are transmitted electrically. More recent research has shown that communication between the neurons is also chemical in nature. Neurons have bulbous endings called synapses. These secrete chemicals that cross the submicroscopic gaps between the individual cells, lock onto special sites on the dendrites of neighboring cells and cause these cells to release chemicals of their own. That action allows the passage of current from one cell to another...
...different men served as superintendent of Walpole between April 1972 and September 1973. Boone appointed Raymond Porelle in December 1972 to clean up Walpole. Porelle had a reputation as a strict law enforcement officer and his assignment was to discipline both the prisoners and the guards. Porelle instituted a lock-up and shakedown in late December to rid Walpole of contraband drugs and alcohol. The tension between guards and prisoners increased so much during the lock-up that Porelle could not unlock a cell block without creating a disturbance...
...track handled $63 million in bets (8% went to management) in a 16-week meeting. Every night Hecht can be found in a posh suite of offices perched at one end of the track. There he can monitor the betting windows on TV or close the curtains and lock the office door by pressing a button by his desk. "There's a few things you aren't going to stop people from doing," he philosophizes while sitting behind an inch-high stack of $100 bills. "Smoking, drinking, and maybe sometimes placing a bet." For Hecht, an evening...
...kidnap victim. Nobody had actually seen him captured, and police learned that the fun-loving youth had joked with friends about how easy it would be to stage his own kidnaping. Then, early in November, an envelope was delivered to the Rome daily Il Messaggero. It contained a lock of reddish hair and a severed human ear. "This is Paul's first ear," read a typewritten note. "If within ten days the family still believes that this is a joke mounted by him, then the other ear will arrive. In other words, he will arrive in little bits...