Word: puffer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller scale, Califano has also made some strides, not without controversy. Calling cigarette puffing "slow-motion suicide," he has added $8.5 million to HEW's $30 million-a-year antismoking campaign. A reformed puffer, the Secretary is pushing the crusade with the righteous zeal of a convert. He argues that reduced smoking would cut back health problems?and the resulting HEW expenses...
...warmest months. Oysters, clams and mussels that eat the organism are poisonous to humans, which is why in some areas such seafood is not harvested in summer. By contrast, fugu poison, which has almost the same effect, is always present in the sex organs and liver of Japanese puffer fish. Hence in Japan chefs who prepare puffers are required to learn how to make the fish edible...
...hives," 9, "snakes," 10 or "long ships," 11 . At other times the patterns may pulse, like the "traffic lights," which flip-flop between patterns 12 and 13. Other figures, including "gliders" and "spaceships," actually move across the board. Some seem to leave clouds of debris behind in their travels ("puffer trains") or climb in a diagonal line ("fuses") and give off clusters of "sparks." One of the more unusual shapes to emerge in Life's repertory of patterns is the "Cheshire cat," 1 4. It gradually changes and shrinks until, after six genertions, only the "grin," 15, is left...