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Moreover, battleships lack antisubmarine and antiaircraft capability. While there is no way to modernize the 16-in. guns with safer automatic loaders, battleships could be converted to cruise-missile platforms, reducing the number of crew members and retiring the old-fashioned bagged-powder firing system. Refitting the ships with 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles apiece, as the Navy once proposed, would cost more than $1 billion a vessel, an unlikely expenditure at a time of shrinking Pentagon budgets. But if the damage to the Iowa is beyond repair, the Navy may have no choice but to replace the burned- out turret...
...supply products with a retail value of some $2 billion in the hopes of at least temporarily quelling demand. Among the items: 12 million pairs of women's boots, 300 million razor blades, 30 million pairs of panty hose, 10 million cassette tapes, 180,000 tons of soap powder and 10,000 tons of toothpaste...
...Arabic authors created a veritable Aphrodisiac-of-the-Month Club. The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Delectation, by a 15th century sheik named Nefzawi, recommended sparrow's ! tongue and, at bedtime, a glassful of honey, 20 almonds and 100 grains of the pine tree. Indian experts prescribed a powder made from the bones of a peacock. Europeans in the Middle Ages preferred the testes or urine of all sorts of animals. One Frenchman favored the flesh of a crocodile ground into powder and mixed with sweet wine ("Works miracles," he promised). Some Europeans taught that eating an apple that...
Americans are no less fascinated by the allure of aphrodisiacs. Some claim to use Spanish fly, a powder made from the blister beetle, but it is poisonous and can kill you. The ginseng root, long a staple among Asians, is popular in the U.S. But nobody has yet bottled the genuine article, and until that happens, one simple rule will continue to apply: a tiger's penis or powdered peacock bones are aphrodisiacs only if you think they...
...contain the pungent odor of the process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke...