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...South Side tavern called the count, the cops cut deals on Wednesday nights. From their unmarked brown van, the investigators watched police drug sale after police drug sale and plenty of sampling. "There they were, not 10 ft. away," recalls Sandberg, still incredulous, "just dipping into the vial and snorting away." Brazen, but not incriminating enough. Sandberg insisted on getting tape recordings of the transactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A True Prince off the City | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

Radiation safety officials said a cardboard box containing a vial of phosphorous 32 and one of carbon 14 was either lost or stolen last Wednesday. The Diamondback, the university student newspaper, reported last week. The phosphorous is "hazardous" if it is removed from its lead cannister...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Radioactive Material | 2/6/1982 | See Source »

...sell not only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves to New York-an anambiguous ending if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Swamp Rats | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...rabbi in Prague was thought by later generations to have been endowed with mystical powers that enabled him to create a golem, or artificial man, at will. Perhaps the most famous of these legends is that of Faust and Homunculus, the little manlike creature that was created in a vial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...Angeles police questioned the mother and daughter for several hours before deciding to arrest Polanski. When they went to Nicholson's house to look for evidence, they found a small vial of cocaine belonging to Huston, and she was booked for possession of the expensive "nose candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Roman Polanski's Tawdry Troubles | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

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