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...vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above the socks and a cigarette filter in each nostril and carefully refold my plastic bag gas mask so I'll be able to put it me, quickly with the holes at the back of my head so my hair will absorb the gas and I'll be able to breathe long enough to cool the cannister with a CO(2) fire extinguisher and pick it up with my asbestos gloves and throw it back at the cops. Someone tells me that he can't get busted or he'll miss...
Exciting event or not, the formation of this new committee (the first of its kind in 18 years) is significant--though the regular Committee on Houses and the special committee looking at the parietals question will absorb the conspicuous issues, this new body will have great power over the future shape of the House system...
...this does not mean a restriction of the freedom in choice of topic, because papers that absorb the methodology or the ambience of a professor would also be indications that something of educational value has been transferred to the student during the course...
Conditional Concessions. Japan, dependent on the U.S. to absorb 30% of its exports, last month sent eight top businessmen to Washington to plead against such backward steps. The delegation returned to Tokyo in gloom. "We are not optimistic at all," said the group's leader, Chairman Kiichiro Sato of Mitsui Bank. "Japanese business must start thinking seriously of countermeasures." As the Japanese see it, the repercussions of U.S. protectionism, both economically and politically, are unestimable...
...determining the age of any ceramic, from a 6,000-year-old potsherd to a 19th century vase. The technique employs the radiation-measuring devices used at most atomic reactors and in hospital radiotherapy departments. It is based on the fact that most mineral substances buried in the earth absorb the natural radiation given off by uranium, potassium and thorium in the earth. The rate of radiation has been relatively constant in historical times, but all absorbed radiation is released when the substance is heated...