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Since 50,000 doses of acid weigh less than a penny, it is hard to discern just how much pure LSD is involved. But the government should try a bit harder that this. Weighing the vessel the acid is in and using that as the actual weight of the drug is analogous to busting someone at Customs in Miami for coke possession and then including the weight of the 727 that they flew in on. There is, as we all know, no glut of prison cells in America; the justice system chooses who will fill them with the severity...
Designing the new parachute was Popov's greatest challenge. Hang gliders weigh only 500 lbs., even if you include the pilot. A small Cessna, on the other hand, weighs more than 1,700 lbs., and a standard parachute big enough to float such a craft safely to the ground would fill up a 50-gal. drum. Not very practical. Undaunted, the BRS engineers figured out how to pack the parachute under pressure in such a way that it takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has formally certified that both Taiwan and China are flouting international agreements by continuing trade in products made from endangered tigers and rhinos. Tiger bones and rhino horns are used in traditional Chinese medicine, but both countries will have to weigh tradition against the threat of possible trade sanctions...
...will those who fought so long to close off the spigot have the same success at opening it back up? Even with Nelson Mandela's imprimatur, money is unlikely to come gurgling into South Africa soon. First investors will want to weigh the risks and prospects on the new political landscape. "Like others, we're reading the tea leaves before we decide what to do," said a spokesman for IBM, which sold its operations to a local concern known as ISM in 1987. The most intimidating hurdle that prospective investors face is the continuing level of factional violence, most...
...fall for a laptop. Laptops are older and heavier cousins of notebook computers. Although they look like notebooks, laptops weigh from eight to 18 pounds. Today they have been virtually replaced by notebooks, but some still sit on store shelves around and sell for irresistible prices. Avoid them. They are too heavy to travel with and too poorly equipped to be useful. And many of them can't run on batteries...