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...very suggestible, (Do you feel nausea? - "well come to think of it..."). Some of them may happen to have a hangover or gastrointestinal bug on the day they participate in the drug trial. It?s easy to get a long list of these for any drug. Even placebo (a sugar pill) produces nausea, vomiting, etc., in test groups. So ask your doc what the usual side-effects are and don't be freaked out by the insert...
...cook isn't just a matter of walking through the markets and seeing what inspires. Food must be ordered a week in advance through the Army supply system, and menus must conform to the Basis of Issue, the per-meal allowance for each soldier of meat, eggs, cheese, fish, sugar-all calculated to the gram, with nutrition as well as economy in mind...
...shack. Surprisingly sturdy, it was built by Aboriginal workers out of anthills and spinifex. "This is where they'd sleep when they weren't camping out," says Burton. Those stockmen may have been flint hard, he says, but they were also well looked after. They were paid in provisions-sugar, tea, butter, flour and meat. Their kids were often sent to private schools, the fees paid by wealthy pastoralists. "The [late '60s] equal-pay decision mucked up the old system," says Burton. "It made workers too expensive. So most Aborig-inal stockmen ended up losing their jobs, stuck on welfare...
...Sugar Land, Texas...
...hopping into an armed speedboat to rescue his ancestral patrimony, as some exiles once threatened to do; instead he'll be retaining a high-powered attorney, hoping to broker some sort of compensation settlement from a transition government. "I want to take part in reviving Cuba's sugar industry," he says, "but I know it won't be easy to do even after Castro is gone...