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...affluent Upper East Side, the hostess sets two small trays before her guests. One contains the familiar white lines of cocaine, ready for snorting through rolled-up dollar bills or tiny straws. The other tray also holds lines of fluffy white powder, but they contain something new: a potent form of heroin that has begun flooding the illegal drug markets of New York and other Eastern cities...
Heroin from Sicily frequently takes only 48 hours to reach street-corner markets in New York. According to Morgenthau, the potent new drug has caused heroin-related deaths in the city to increase from 246 in 1978 to a projected 600 this year; arrests for heroin possession and trafficking are running 85% ahead of 1978. Moreover, said Morgenthau, "the free availability of heroin is increasing the number of addicts." New York is ill equipped to combat the problem. Because of budget cuts, the city has only 325 narcotics investigators, compared with about...
...centuries by word of mouth tell much more than their plots. In their diversity, they suggest the variety of dreams, the possible mutations of consciousness and climates. Their frequent similarities point teasingly in the opposite direction, toward some Ur tale that generated all the others, a narrative vast and potent enough to enclose the world. Writes Calvino: "Taken all together, they offer, in their oft-repeated and constantly varying examinations of human vicissitudes, a general explanation of life preserved in the slow ripening of rustic consciences...
Modern chemical weapons are known as nerve gases or nerve agents. They are chemically related to certain pesticides but are far more potent. The first was discovered in Germany in 1936 during research on insecticides, and the military production of that gas, sarin, began almost immediately...
...this game showcased the extremely potent run-and-gun Crimson offense, virtually silent in two previous contests. And Ferrante made most of the noise...