Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acres near San José del Guaviare, southeast of Bogota. Now he tends 15,000 coca bushes. He harvests the leaves three times a year and processes them in a bath of gasoline, sulfuric acid, potassium permanganate and ammonia. "You can't blame me if others get poisoned with this stuff," Monroy says. "This is what they pay me for." Colombia's annual per capita income is about $1,150. From his annual end product, 35 lbs. of paste, Monroy nets $65,000. Inflation along this booming stretch of the Guayabero River is understandably rampant: prostitutes can earn...
...stuff, resembling rock-candy granules, has a melting point half that of plain cocaine. It is customarily smoked in a small glass water pipe, often filled with rum instead of water. The bowl is usually fitted with several thicknesses of fine steel mesh so that the precious drips of melting coke are fully burned. A butane torch may be used, although a lighter or plain matches will do, to apply steady heat on the pipe's bowl and vaporize the free-base. (Accidents, not surprisingly, are common. Comedian Richard Pryor nearly died in 1980 in a mishap...
...anything recovered during 1980 from the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita. That ship and a sister ship, the Atocha, both carrying New World treasure to Spain, sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida in 1622. "It's a good feeling to finally be able to distribute this stuff. It justifies the faith people had in me," said Mel Fisher, founder of Treasure Salvors. It was an uncharacteristic understatement from the usually hyperbolic Fisher, 60, an incorrigible optimist who for years was regarded along the Florida Keys as at best a dreamer and at worst an unscrupulous hustler. Twenty...
...never been any situation like this," says Wiley Grant, chairman of the Commissioner's Art Advisory Panel of the Internal Revenue Service, which must approve donations taken as tax deductions. "There's been nothing of this magnitude or the magnificence of these particular items. All of this stuff is documented, and the publicity has made it more valuable. Really, the market will have to determine what it is worth...
...There was a lot of smashing windows and hitting rich people's property and doing a lot of out-a-sight stuff. But, "she says," a lot of people got ripped off, too. And that wasn't good...