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...every pound authorities grab, another six sift out into the marketplace, an estimated 45 tons a year. Cocaine has become a $25 billion business, about three times as big as the recording and movie industries put together. (The manufacture of cocaine paraphernalia is a small industry in itself: users spend millions of dollars a year on coke spoons, free-base pipes and extraction kits, digital gram scales and the like.) Selling coke is, in the words of one U.S. drug official, "the most lucrative of all underworld ventures...
...current full-time I.R.D. staff consists of only five professional researchers and administrators and five clerical workers. Following Jessup's lead (though he is now less active), they sift through mind-numbing denominational documents, ferreting out damaging quotations, grants and linkages, especially in the foreign policy field. The I.R.D. now issues a monthly bulletin, topical pamphlets and special publications like last week's 100-page response to critics in the Protestant Establishment, and it answers a growing flood of press and lay inquiries (2,500 since the CBS show). The key researcher is Presbyterian Kerry Ptacek, a onetime...
Cutesier shoppers can sift through a panoply of more specialized cookbooks. Aspiring chefs are invited to cook with Paul Bocuse, Craig Claiborne and Jacques Pepin. Somewhat less continental are the offerings in Richard Simmons' Never Say Diet Cookbook--Simmons urges eaters to forego roast beef and plum pudding for the delights of cheese-less cheesecake. His recipe for "Chilly Cottage Cheese Mold" might lead one to conclude that health fanatics don't really live longer--it just feels that way. Most intriguing is The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, a creative veggie cookbook...
...University of Cincinnati's William Lasher remarks, "Slang doesn't get written down, so it doesn't endure. If you do write it down, it gets into the language, and stops being slang." In a maniacally open electronic society, the news and entertainment industries sift hungrily through the culture searching for color, anecdote, personality, uniqueness and, of course, slang. All these items instantly become part of the show. Slang is wonderful entertainment. But its half-life is shorter now. Good slang gets commercial in a hurry, like certain country-music singers...
...5HTP, however, was always in jeopardy. No drug company was interested in developing a drug with such a small market. Van Woert had to buy it at a cost of $2,000 per kg from a biochemical supply house, where it was available for animal experiments, and sift it by hand into capsules. When his grant money ran out, Van Woert could no longer obtain the unapproved substance; nor could Dobkin legally do so. Van Woert's patients had to make do with far less effective medications. For Dobkin, 29, that meant returning to her wheelchair. "When...