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Officials fear that as the powder's retail worth falls, new, less affluent buyers will become regular customers. The going price per gram is $75 to $100; the glut could cut that to $50 or even $25. Coke is reaching the streets in a purer, stronger form. All this worries Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner: "If the price drops and there is an increase in purity," he warns, "you're going to have a lot more deaths from snorting and free-basing...
...encounter far more than the simple lures of sportsmen who gladly pay up to $3,000 a week for riverbank angling rights. The fish must also run an illicit gauntlet of nets, gaffs, snares, spears, dynamite, electric shocks, even poison, believed to be cy-mag, a cyanide-based white powder that sucks the oxygen out of the water and turns every asphyxiated fish belly up within a two-mile area. Reaching river's end after such an ordeal, male salmon are probably too pooped to papa...
...colored substance that had the most influence on the structure of Japanese taste is a green powder called matcha, or ceremonial tea. Whisked with hot water to a bitter jade froth and served in coarse-looking, irregular bowls, it is the basis of chanoyu, the tea ceremony. The aesthetic of tea has permeated all visual culture in Japan, from architecture to the appreciation of nature...
...more than 120,000 pharmacists. One of the most severe criticisms of Japanese medicine made by Westerners is that family doctors overprescribe. An American scholar who recently consulted a Japanese doctor for a mildly sprained ankle came away with a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory drug, a stomach powder to ease the side effects of the drugs, and a foot plaster. In the U.S., he probably would have been told to stay off the foot for a while and take a few aspirin...
...adapt to shorter limbs (Ride is 5 ft. 5 in.), shuttle seats were built so that they could slide like those in a car. Optional grooming aids were added to the personal kits of the astronauts (though Ride pointedly has not said whether she will wear lipstick or powder for the inevitable orbital TV shows). Included as well are tampons, linked together lest one drift off when the box is opened. The shuttle's single privy was already designed with women in mind. Instead of the flexible hose used by the male-only crews of the old Gemini...