Word: weeded
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...miracle an external event occurring in the real, objective world? Or is it a sort of hallucination, an event of the imagination? During the '60s, that hallucinatory decade, the writer Carlos Castaneda sought illumination with his teacher Don Juan through the use of peyote, Jimson-weed and mushroom dust. Drug miracles: Castaneda found himself having conversations with a bilingual coyote and looking at a 100-ft.-tall gnat with spiky, tufted hair and drooling jaws...
...which range to $800 per oz.? Then book a flight to Czechoslovakia. A garden-supply chain in Prague is selling 1-lb. packages of pot imported from neighboring Romania for the equivalent of just 85 cents. According to the manager of the state-owned company, the weed is an effective "fertilizer." Thanks to the country's confused postcommunist legal system, it is not against the law just to purchase the "fertilizer." When the product's availability was disclosed in the Czechoslovak weekly Mlady Svet, dozens of Prague teenagers developed a sudden interest in gardening...
Eliminate tax subsidies for underused and obsolete hospitals. Together with the discipline of managed care and physician disclosure requirements, this change will help weed out vestigial institutions so that taxpayer support for health care can be put to better uses...
DOWN ON HIGHS. America is starting to kiss off its infatuation with marijuana. The National Institute on Drug Abuse says the number of weed smokers dropped one-third last year, to 20.5 million, from a 1979 high of 31.5 million. Reasons cited for the decline are rising prices, fewer supplies and the plain fact that it's just not cool anymore to use the stuff...
...break the mold, Marden in the mid-'80s started doing calligraphic drawings, not with a brush but with twigs of ailanthus wood -- ailanthus being the common weed tree that grows in every sidewalk crack in Lower Manhattan but is known to the Chinese as the tree of heaven. Stuck in a long holder and dipped in ink, these flexible little sticks delivered a blobby, rough line, far from the look of classical brush drawing but with some of its improvised character...