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Some 20 years ago, at San Quentin prison, it became very popular for the inmates to have a canary in their cell, for which they purchased birdseed. It was finally discovered that the interest in the canary was solely to have an opportunity to obtain hemp seed, which would then be planted in some obscure spot in the prison yard, or mixed directly with smoking tobacco...
...rules were then changed, forbidding any prisoner to have a canary in his cell...
...sense, did too well. Sure, there are slums left-but another Federal housing project can clean up the worst. Most of the fights in labor have simmered down to arguments around the bargaining table. Would-be heroes find themselves padded from har-and hope-like lunatics in a cell. In business, the tax structure, social security and pension plans promise to soften the blow of depression or personal misfortune-and forbid the building of new empires. In science there is the great corporation (or the Government) glad to furnish the expensive machinery now necessary for the smallest advance...
...scientists dissolved a little ferrous sulphate and carbon dioxide in pure water, enclosed it in a specially designed glass cell, and exposed it to a high-energy helium ion beam from a cyclotron. Analysis showed that a little of the carbon dioxide combined with water to produce formic acid and formaldehyde. Scientists have long known that solutions of formaldehyde sometimes turn into sugar...
...trophy was taken to headquarters and put in a cell. Later, the Union reported a missing bison head, and University police soon returned the animal to its wall...