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...racist insults sure to be directed at him by players and fans--someone, Rickey told Robinson at their first meeting, "with guts enough not to fight back." Robinson was the man. The first four-sport star at UCLA, an Army veteran, a budding Negro League phenom, Robinson neither smoke nor drank and possessed a heroic reserve off the field to complement his fiery resolve on it. As he stepped to the plate in a Dodgers' uniform, he was a mature 28 years old that April day. (By contrast, Derek Jeter was playing in his eighth major league season when...
...pinging off rocks and buzzing past heads. In return, Kurdish artillery fires in from the flat plains about 2 miles below. Thick whistles sound uncomfortably overhead as a shell passes the Americans' position. It thwacks into the mountainside. "If we can get the blocking force in place, we can smoke them," shouts a U.S. soldier...
...HUPD officer was dispatched to Eliot House to investigate a report of smoke coming from a building. The officer determined that the smoke was coming from a fireplace...
...museum, which was designed by Thai interior design firm Siam Studio.) These pipes are part of the museum's collection, including one fashioned from the gnarled wood of the Thai phrik khi nu chili bush, which was said to impart a spicy flavor to the opium smoke. Also on exhibition are dozens of pipe bowls, the bulbous feature that sets an opium pipe apart from an ordinary tobacco pipe. Roughly the size of a doorknob and produced in myriad shapes, the pipe bowl was a canvas on which Chinese artisans displayed their talents. Patterns on pipe bowls ranged from geometrical...
...where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size diorama, entered through an innocuous-looking tea shop. The poorer users could choose doses of low-grade opium self-administered in spartan surroundings. Better-heeled junkies could smoke pipes of pure opium prepared by servants in opulently furnished rooms. Lest visitors get carried away amid their reveries, the curators have mounted cautionary tributes to entertainers who overdosed, such as River Phoenix...