Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Horse Racing: Admission is cheap. But ifyou don't pick the right ponies, it'll cost you.World-famous Belmont is only a bus ride away. Packup your troubles, stuff your wallet and head overto Belmont...
TRASH is making headlines, and no, Rona Barrett is not scoring higher ratings. I'm talking about the stuff we don't want any more. Millions of tons of waste--garbage, platics, hazardous waste, and even radioactive material--are produced by Americans every day. And the typical person doesn't even think he's contributing to a problem when tossing a croissant wrapper in a waste basket...
...actually horn but densely compacted fibers of keratin, a protein found in hair and fingernails. Importing it is illegal in most countries, but an illicit $3 million-a-year trade flourishes in the Middle East and eastern Asia, where dealers pay $450 per lb. wholesale for the stuff. (One large animal can yield 10 lbs. of horn.) It is a myth that the horn is used as an aphrodisiac. In the Far East it is ground into traditional medicines that supposedly reduce fever and stop nosebleeds. It is also coveted in North Yemen, where it is carved into dagger handles...
Ultimately, the urge to inform overrides the obligation to entertain. Perhaps punditry is not the best preparation for fiction. Safire the columnist is entitled to his belief that the stuff of life can be summed up in political thrusts and parries. Safire the novelist would have been better off if he had allowed himself, and his imagination, more freedom...
...duty policeman and served four years. He finally managed to graduate in 1982 while behind bars. "When I was younger, it was fun," he says of his criminal career. "Like Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. I didn't think I was going to get into the radical stuff." But the radical stuff became addictive...