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...fired near his ear, the waves sped up. In another subject, they might stop entirely. The magnetic capsule gives the researchers plenty of time to work: they have made recordings for as long as five hours. The same technique could be used a day or two later, as the pellet slowly works its way through the digestive tract, to determine how the intestines contract...
...watering of oysters and butter, injection of as much as a quart of water into fresh-killed turkeys just before freezing. The FDA concedes that there is no such thing as a perfectly clean food. But it is forever inching toward the impossible goal. Up to now, two pellets of rodent excrement in a pint of wheat have been permitted. This week a new and tougher rule went into effect: only one pellet per pint...
...known as "the grim and grisly Griswold of the North." The episode begins as Danny totters up to the stirrup cup. There is a beaker of wine for each of the contestants, and he cannot remember which one has been doctored. Does the vessel with the pestle have the pellet with the poison? No, no. The chalice with the palace has the-or was it the brew that is true? But then that means the pellet with the pestle's in the vessel with the brew, with the poison with the palace in the chalice that is-"There...
With a sheaf of ballots, each stamped with its party's symbol, the voter squeezed into a booth. There he folded one ballot into a tight pellet. Emerging, he tossed the unneeded cards into a wastebasket, dropped the pellet through the ballot box's slot, bowed to the mekhum, returned to his canoe and glided away on the pea-soupy Tonle Bassac...
...person could take a whole pel let used in treating chickens . . . and it would have no effect on him. There is a chance that he might have a slight nausea for a short time. In order to have any effect on his sexual activity, a pellet would need to be consumed daily, or possibly even twice daily, for at least five or six days. We can't quite imagine anyone eating that number of chicken necks or heads, even ignoring the fact that in pra. tically every instance the pellet will have been completely absorbed by the chicken before...