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...practiced ease, Deck Hand Basil Kuvshinikov, whose name and accent both attest to his origins in the Russian city of Smolensk, steps ashore and walks beside the slowly moving boat, a loop of its thick forward hawser over his shoulder. As he slips the loop over one of the mushroom-shaped bollards onshore, another deck hand, a stocky, bearded man named Tim Burke, tightens the line, snubbing the Peckinpaugh to the side of the lock...
Assuming the critical reports do not have the calamitous effect of generating sentiment for still greater defense funds--to bolster conventional, along with nuclear forces--concern over military readiness could help stem the growth of the nuclear aresenal. The danger is that greater "preparedness" could mushroom into a dangerous build-up in conventional forces, but in general, any break on the nuclear effort would be a welcome change...
Schultes' work with narcotics has led to developments such as mescaline, which causes a "beautifully colored visual hallucination," he says, and psilocybin, which is extracted from a mushroom plant native to Mexico. Both drugs have been used in psychiatry...
...Reagan's view, the scenario for World War III would become more like an arcade video game and less like a prime-time apocalypse. Instead of mushroom clouds springing up from charred landscapes and families being vaporized in their backyards or dying slow deaths from radiation sickness, the imagery would feature unmanned enemy projectiles being zapped and disintegrating high above the earth; the planet and its population would remain out of harm...
...death toll from a devastating fire last Feb. 25 in the shantytown-or favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble...