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Earlier in the week Mahfouz resigned his post "to combat these false charges," and the same day silver plunged on European exchanges as his bank, Saudi Arabia's largest, dumped gargantuan amounts of the metal. The silver shock spilled into oil stocks, which helped fuel a 44-point slide in the Dow- Jones average on the New York Stock Exchange. Although silver and stocks recovered, the turmoil in those markets was the first close-to-home repercussion of the B.C.C.I. scandal in the U.S. It may not be the last...
...went to bed that night in completed shock. I felt mentally assaulted by my own popular culture. How sad that the networks can count on us to be in our living rooms at night, ready to flip through channels of TV programming that will leave us feeling like we need to take a shower. We, need to take a shower. We, the jelly-brained viewers, aren't the only victims, either. Think of the Jennys, Susies, and Lisas. Think of the King...
...prompted a Paris psychiatrist to try the drug on schizophrenics. Thorazine calmed patients and reduced their symptoms. It was quickly proclaimed a miracle drug. Thorazine and related drugs such as haloperidol, fluphenazine and thiothixene soon eclipsed the brutal treatments previously in vogue: lobotomy, primitive electroshock and artificially induced insulin shock. Over the next two decades, nearly half a million patients were discharged from state hospitals in the U.S. and hundreds of thousands more from hospitals in Europe...
...finds documents showing that Buhler was present at a high-level conference at Wannsee on Jan. 20, 1942. Another who attended was Adolf Eichmann. The meeting dealt with a concept March has never heard mentioned: "the final solution of * the Jewish question" and the planning of death camps. In shock he takes the papers and, with the Gestapo close behind, commandeers a car in a desperate run to the Swiss border...
...pursuits beyond the farm. Plows of mounting complexity and size were hooked behind teams of oxen and horses and then to crude steam engines. In 1894 Nebraskan Sterling Morton, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, decreed that the great seal of the Department of Agriculture would no longer have a shock of wheat in the center; it would have a shock of corn -- and a plow...