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...recipe for napalm? "You just take gasoline, sprinkle in some powder, and stir...
Fieser got quite proficient at making napalm. "It's quite simple," he said. "You just take gasoline, sprinkle in some powder, and stir. First it turns into a mixture the consistency of applesauce, and then you let it sit a while and it turns into a thick, tough gel." He pulled a vial of napalm from one of his office shelves; it looks like dried yellow glue. Fieser said that although it was made 30 years ago it would still burn...
...Donald Brooker found that the newsprint effectively trapped the single-celled plants, which are rich in protein. After a while, such a thick layer of algae built up on the newsprint that it had a higher content of crude protein than dried beef, soybean meal or skimmed-milk powder. Though the Missouri scientists do not suggest that their old-newsprint disposal scheme could ever fill human food needs, it could provide a useful high-protein feed for livestock. In fact, some University of Missouri cows are already munching on algae-laden newsprint...
...national hotel average. (Rates: from $21.50 per room to $1,100 for the entire floor that some groups require.) There are problems along with the prosperity, however. The restaurant's coffee cream has been laced with LSD from time to time; coke at the Hyatt comes in powder form as often as liquid; people occasionally collapse in the hotel's public bathrooms from one kind of overdose or another. Last year alone, 40 police busts and 65 citizen's arrests were made on the premises...
...first jobs was to institute rules and punishments regulating eating and elimination. All food on the plate had to be eaten, or it would appear at the next meal. Failure to perform potty at the proper hour (training began at six weeks) brought the certain retribution of laxative powder. Nannying appears to have provided parents with some peculiar satisfactions. As proof that the popularity of the system spread, the author has turned up a mid-19th century French newspaper ad asking for "Une gouvernante anglaise-méthodes drastiques...