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...Hitler's Germany between 1940 and 1945 have been extensively described by professional historians. Yet the suffering of those who experienced the bombing has largely been relegated to fireside tales, memoirs, and fictional accounts. A new book by Berlin historian Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand (The Conflagration, Propyläen; 592 pages) now brings to life the horror of those nights when British and American fighter planes dropped half a million bombs on some 1,000 towns and cities, killing 635,000 people. "I wanted to show what happens when the bomb hits the ground," Friedrich told Time about...
Compounds that contain calcium arsenate, for example, may damage annual bluegrass; those containing dacthal and zytron can harm fescues and bent grasses. Two new chemicals, calcium propyl arsenate and diphenatrile, have yet to be fully proved in all conditions. And as good as they are, none of the killers are 100% effective. Besides, no chemical can control the fellow next door, whose grass crabbed because he didn't use Don't, and as a result the pest inches stealthily across the property line carrying the seeds (about 50,000 per plant) of a monstrous population explosion...
Your exposition [of a new muscle relaxant to be marketed under the name Soma-June 8] leaves me with no recourse but to admit that my life is momentarily complete. To envision N-isopropyl-2-methyl-2-propyl-1,3-propanediol dicarbamate narcotized people running around chanting Soma, delicious Soma, is to my mind just about...
Even chemists had to give the drug a less jawbreaking name than N-isopropyl-2-methyl-2-propyl-1 ,3-propanediol dicarbamate, hit upon "carisoprodol." That was still too much for Wallace Labs' savvy marketing department: they are calling it Soma...
Four hours after eating a big slice of "an ordinary culinary onion of domestic growth, of medium size and fairly pungent.'' every quart of Dr. Haggard's breath contained one-billionth of an ounce of onion oil (allyl propyl disulfide). "The odor was still detectable by the sense of smell...
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