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...other end full of opium, pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled the cool, sweetish smoke. I lay down and lazily watched my friend smoke. After each having six pipes of opium, we felt ready to leave and paid the attendant 250 kip, or about 25 cents apiece...
...other end full of opium. pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled the cool, sweetish smoke. I lay down and lazily watched my friend smoke. After each having six pipes of opium, we felt ready to leave and paid the attendant 250 kip, or about 25 cents apiece...
...well as in a three-in-one dose. Best results to date have been with the spaced, single-type doses, and it is expected that this regimen will be followed in the U.S. Each dose of vaccine can be given in a capsule, or as a teaspoonful of sweetish, cherry-colored liquid, or-as in current Soviet practice-built into a hard candy "sourball" with a different color for each virus type...
...biggest U.S. field trial of any live-virus vaccine (TIME, Feb. 29). As of April 30, when Florida's polio season was beginning and authorities halted vaccinations to keep test results as clear as possible, no fewer than 413,336 residents had taken a swig of the sweetish, pink vaccine developed by Lederle Laboratories' Dr. Herald...
...Diego Zoo, Klauber milked 5,171 of them by opening their mouths with a metal claw, hooking their fangs over the edge of a cup and pressing out the contents of their poison glands. The venom, he says, is almost odorless. Its taste is first astringent, then turns sweetish. It makes the lips tingle a little...