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...bold act of piracy was as bizarre as it was successful. As three spanking new Iranian missile boats steamed leisurely in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern Spanish port of Cadiz last week, they were pursued by a slow-going Spanish tugboat. When the tug reached one of the French-built warships, about 15 raiders from the commercial vessel stormed aboard. They hauled down the flag of Iran's Islamic Republic and replaced it with the green, white and red banner, emblazoned with the imperial, sword-bearing lion of the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The boarders heartily sang...
...smoke marijuana for the same purpose, or mix their C with heroin in a process called "speedballing" or "boy-girl." This produces a tug-of-war in which the exhilaration of coke is undercut by the heroin. As one former user describes the sensation, "It's like taking an elevator at 100 m.p.h. to the top of the Empire State Building and then someone cuts the cable." A few middle class users who dabble with heroin in conjunction with cocaine smoke it rather than inject it in their veins like the ghetto kid. This, they believe, prevents addiction...
...missions progressed, these initial problems usually disappeared, only to be replaced by more insidious ones. Normally, under the tug of the earth's gravity, the blood and other fluids pool in the legs. But in space, these fluids are distributed more evenly, in effect creating fluid surpluses in key areas like the heart. The body reacts swiftly. Apparently thinking it has more blood than it needs, it reduces production both of red blood cells and disease-fighting lymphocytes, making the space travelers more vulnerable to infections. (The cosmonauts found themselves spending more and more time scrubbing the spacecraft...
...California and New York. Nonetheless, the main opposition to the law comes from Southerners who feel that the clearance procedure is invidiously applied to their region. Says Republican Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi: "Local officials have to go to Washington, get on their knees, kiss the ring and tug their forelock to all these third-rate bureaucrats...
...spacecraft accelerated, eventually to reach speeds of 17,000 m.p.h., the astronauts were pressed hard against their couches, experiencing a tug three times that of normal gravity, only half of a Saturn launch's g forces. Eight and a half minutes after the spacecraft had left the launch pad, its engines had swallowed up more than half a million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Columbia fired explosive charges to spin off its main tank, which disintegrated in a shower of fragments over the Indian Ocean, only ten miles off course, although at a higher altitude than expected. Then...