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Elsewhere in the country, resistance to softer pot laws continues. Though possession of marijuana in small quantities is now just a misdemeanor in Maine, police around Baxter State Park this summer are conducting a campaign to arrest campers who light more than camp fires. So far, raiders have busted more than 150 vacationers and slapped them with a total of $40,000 in fines. In Massachusetts, despite reduced penalties for marijuana use, 47% of all drug arrests in the state are still for pot. Florida Circuit Court Judge Edward Cowart declares: "The thing that bothers me most is that authorities...
...often suggested to meet these requirements is to freeze the soft soil under the foundation. But engineers point out that such a move might only shift the load to lower levels of subsoil that are even softer and more likely to give way. Others, unaware of Mussolini's unsuccessful attempt, suggest injecting concrete or plastics into the ground. Then there is what seems to be the more practical plan of M.I.T. Aerospace Engineer Yao Tzi Li, who proposed ringing the tower's base with buried concrete pads. Connected to the tower by a network of trusses, the pads...
...elephants for their tusks and teeth has become more lucrative than ever. Game officials estimate that in the next 18 months 10% of Kenya's more than 70,000 elephants will be killed by ivory hunters. Many of the victims will be young females because their ivory is softer and easier to carve...
...economy's growth will continue to slow for the rest of the year, but the expansion was so rapid earlier that the gross national product will probably post a real gain of 6% for the year-not counting inflation. A softer economy could aid the Administration's belatedly hardened price-control program, which can use all the help it can get. A failure to beat inflation now would lead to the worst of both worlds next year: recession and runaway prices at the same time...
...recorded. He was the only son of a traveling salesman who died when Howard was but eight, leaving the boy in the cloying clutches of a genteel but overbearing mother. Sickly, precocious, reclusive, Howard began writing eerie fiction early, nuzzling in imagination up to decay, decomposition and other horrors softer and stickier than a mother's kisses. After a hiatus, he resumed writing in his late 20s, finding a ready market in the cheap magazines of the day-mainly Weird Tales -and becoming the center of a small cadre of writers of similar bent...