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When the Harvard football team clashes with Lafayette this afternoon in its home opener, fans in attendance should be treated to an exhibition of football in its purest form...
...reasons GHB is so popular is that it is easily home-brewed in basement chemistry labs; instructions can be found in libraries or on the Internet. The drug, even in its purest form, is odorless and nearly tasteless. It can quickly depress the respiratory system, particularly when mixed with alcohol. The risk is that not enough oxygen gets to the brain, triggering both unconsciousness and loss of memory. "A substance that knocks out the victim and leaves her with amnesia makes the perfect agent for date rape," says Michael Ellis, director of the Southeast Texas Poison Center. Unfortunately...
...brood, and Koola, her daughter, was clinging to her side, Binti gathered the boy gently in her arms and took him to the door where most of his kind usually gathered. The humans, after retrieving the boy, went, well, ape. Binti became a heroine of the purest sort: mute, unassuming, expecting nothing. She hasn't even asked after the boy, who suffered brain contusions, bruises and a laceration but appears to have fully recovered. He remembers nothing of his ordeal...
...stories were too much for a celebrity who doesn't need the money enough to justify the grief. So Gifford wrote checks and went on Larry King Live and launched a crusade. And the more she succeeds, the clearer it becomes that even the purest consumer can't avoid complicity. The trousers are from Honduras, the orange juice from Brazil, the teddy bear from Thailand. "I like a cheap shirt," admits a Labor Department administrator, "so I'm guilty...
...purest mathematics I'd encountered up until then, and while I had no difficulty working the problems or understanding the proofs, I began to worry about the motivation. What was the point of Lebesgue's way of defining an integral? Perhaps, I thought, Lebesgue himself could enlighten...