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...such, his totem color was blue, and his mortal enemies, who wore red, were Bloods, and in particular a nearby Bloods subset called the Skyline Pirus. (Black Crips and Bloods gangs, now nationwide, got their start in Los Angeles in the early '70s.) The bonding ritual was a subadolescent mumbo jumbo of slogans and hand signs, like those used by adult fraternal groups. Car theft, drug selling and smash-and-grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers, but what gave the Crips their legends and their...
Despite such techno talk, none of these drugs has been proved effective in properly designed, double-blind trials. "I think they are silly," says the University of California's McGaugh, who dismisses the elaborate explanations of how the drugs work as "scientific mumbo jumbo." If such substances were indeed effective -- and safe -- he points out, drug companies, which stand to gain hundreds of millions of dollars from their sale, would have marketed them years...
...general, the explanations given by practitioners cannot be squared with the Western science of physiology. Indeed, the mumbo-jumbo accounts are enough & to turn a believing patient skeptical. Chiropractors speak of subtle misalignments or "subluxations" of the spine, but other doctors usually cannot detect them. Acupuncture concerns itself with 12 pulses and 12 organs -- six solid, or yin, and six hollow, or yang -- connected to fingers and toes by channels through which energy flows...
...Optoelectronic integrated circuit" may sound like high-tech mumbo jumbo, but Texas Instruments is betting that it will soon be as familiar a term as computer chip. Last week the Dallas-based electronics firm announced the development of the first OEIC, a chip that transmits information not through the cumbersome contemporary method of electrons passing along silicon pathways, but rather through the simplest medium of all: light...
...interpret it." Yet the decisive moment for Chief Justice Earl Warren (Richard Kiley) is rendered in simplistic human terms: an inspirational trip to Gettysburg and the sight of his black chauffeur sleeping in the car because he can't get a motel room. What was all that legal mumbo jumbo anyway...