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...know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. The government did not like the fact that I was advertising bongs or that my son's company was advertising bongs in High Times. So they started a thing called "Operation Pipe Dreams." And in my case, they wanted me. They felt I was the leader so they wanted to put me in jail to make a statement. There's a biblical saying that I kind of go by, I think Jesus may have said it, it goes: "Resist not evil...
...quality of vocational schools throughout the country, hoping to siphon off some of the kids going to universities while still providing them with decent job opportunities. Employers say it's too early to say whether the program has been effective. He Lingyan, who runs a fast-growing industrial pipe - manufacturing company in Zhejiang province, says that when he needs engineers, "I look for people who have already worked. A lot of colleges aren't producing kids with the skills we need. There needs to be better communication between companies and educational institutions, and it will take time to fix this...
...express concern over future health risks as construction continues. On August 1, employees from Turner Construction—the company responsible for building Harvard's 589,000-square-foot science complex—caused a leak while relining a 300-foot portion of the century-old, brick-lined sewer pipe that runs along Western Avenue. Around 4 a.m., construction crews were pumping near-boiling water into the pipe to set the lining, when visible plumes of styrene-contaminated wator vapor started to shoot out of a manhole near Seattle Street. "We did not anticipate that we would have this issue...
...first type is reflected in Ed Hecimovich, 41, who had just sat down for a greasy- spoon lunch with his wife and three young children when the Secret Service swarmed Schoop's Diner in Portage, Ind., and Obama swept in for a cheeseburger. Hecimovich, a pipe fitter who twice voted for President Bush, asked the candidate about the economy, his top concern. Obama's answers impressed the independent, but he's still undecided. "I like that Obama stands for change," Hecimovich says. "But he doesn't have the experience...
...chilling precision, as when he describes the two girls on the date of their premature birth: "They weighed a bit more than a kilo, a term of art in our current context." Carr and the girls' mother had used crack during her pregnancy--he had just handed her a pipe when her water broke--and it is both horrifying and apt to hear the babies quantified on the same scale as a brick of cocaine...