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...scarcity: it takes 100 g of opium to refine 10 g of heroin. Of the 5,000 tons of opium harvested annually, 99% of it is synthesized into more lucrative and easily transported heroin by drug refiners closer to the source. Very little of the drug in its pure, natural state makes it to the West...
...That's why when girls like Sophie or guys like Fitz hear that the drug is widely available in Laos, they can't resist the temptation to try out what has become almost legendary in the West: pure opium. The drug is grown mainly by the hill tribes who came south from Yunnan, China, in the last century and brought a taste for the black, inebriating tar with them. Tribes like the Aka and Hmong cultivate the crop in the otherwise arid highland climate, and bring it down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about...
...presentation of scientific theories as proof positive that we have unlocked one of the greatest mysteries of all time is pure folly. The scenario of absolute, total cataclysmic destruction of everything is irresponsible. For those of us with a faith in a higher power, the story's final paragraph was the ultimate atheistic tweak of the nose: "a disembodied digital intelligence" may survive to note "an unimaginably vast, cold, dark and profoundly lonely place." Did the writer experience a jolt of perverse, sadistic joy in writing these depressing words? Shame on all of you for your pseudoscientific Chicken Littleism. LYNNE...
...trip from you to no you. A trip from the known to unknown. From the valley of total knowledge, stuff and ego to utter surrender where nothing remains in you but pure consciousness. You go to a stage where you are totally free of fear of dying. Or living. And that's what a yogi means in India. It is someone who has moved from body to the mind, to the soul, to awareness, to the subtle surrender to the superconsciousness. Next time you head for a yoga class, ask yourself whether you are ready to be a seeker...
...which was already a compromise of a compromise: Use federal funding for the research, but not for the collection of the stem cells themselves. Here the Solomonic solution may actually be to cut the baby in half, and give something to each side. Even though it's not ideologically pure - and a little messy...