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...Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying a pack of incense or some herbal tea. Vendors, however, have to walk a fine line. In the case of mushrooms, it is illegal to extract the active ingredients?in most cases, psilocybin?but it isn't illegal to possess the fungus itself. This means vendors can sell the mushrooms, but they can't tell you what to do with them or advertise them as a drug. Ask the girl behind the counter how to use your Copelandia cyanescens or Stropharia cubensis, and she'll reply quickly she doesn't know...
Blake, however, did all these things, with the result that his books, tiny and rare as they are, "illuminated" in a form of color etching that was essentially his invention, possess an astonishing integration of clarity, density and richness of organic detail. They ennoble the very idea of illustration and erase the boundaries that supposedly distinguish it from "art." You cannot imagine separating the text from the design, or the design from the text, and so there has hardly been an English book creator since--not even William Morris, the greatest one to emerge since Blake--who did not feel...
People who make deals for a living have always fascinated me. High stakes and chutzpah--that's the ticket. Yet beyond the brass, many successful dealmakers possess an enviable skill set--vision, confidence, perseverance, focus, even empathy. Such qualities are the backbone of lasting success in any field, and to the extent they can be learned, we should all crave input. In A Passion to Win (Simon & Schuster), by Sumner Redstone with Peter Knobler, we go to school alongside one of the best. Redstone, a Boston nobody, took over his father's fledgling movie-theater operation and built it into...
...walks into an exam at the Science Center and threatens to set off a bomb. He says he is “declaring war on the United States of America." Students are able to flee safely and the man is arrested. The man does not possess a bomb...
Despite the loss of this year's seniors, the Crimson will possess the tools next year to improve on this season's Ivy performance...