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...mean streets of New York City, where the drug entered the marketplace last year, it is known as "crack." Dealers sell pellet-size "rocks" of the highly purified cocaine in small plastic vials for prices starting at about $10. Crack is smoked rather than snorted, and a single hit provides a short but intense and practically instantaneous rush. The drug of the moment, it has been reported in at least 13 states, and police in New York and California have been busy busting the "base houses," or "rock houses," where the stuff is sold and smoked. Said William Hopkins...
...government of State President P.W. Botha last week reminded its opponents it will not tolerate even the most peaceful protest. In Cape Town, some 200 demonstrators gathered on a beachfront carrying lighted candles, singing and chanting. After warning them that the vigil was illegal, police dispersed the crowd with plastic whips...
...eight minutes and quenched the fires in 90 minutes, but none of the plane's occupants could be helped. Soon the area was eerily dark except for the colored lights and searching flashlights of the workers, whose main duty was to retrieve bodies. The victims were placed on plastic sheets in neat rows in a nearby hangar. Their bodies were to be flown this week to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where forensic experts would undertake the difficult chore of establishing firm identifications...
When Chaucer's travel-weary pilgrims needed refreshment on their way to Canterbury, they stopped at the Tabard Inn. Much has changed in the past 600 years: local breweries are giving way, and contemporary wanderers are faced with more plastic and fewer local brews. Yet, as The English Pub by Rob Anderson (Viking; 111 pages; $25) makes intoxicatingly clear, a good deal of old English charm remains. More than 30,000 public houses continue to offer wayfarers in England an inimitable hospitality, glowingly captured in Photographer Andy Whipple's color pictures. Pub exteriors may go from Tudor austerity to Victorian...
...Rosenberg of Harvard wrote in Rembrandt, Life and Work. "As in all his greatest works, one feels here a fusion of the real with the visionary, and this painting, through its inner glow and its deep harmonies, comes closer to the effect of music than to that of the plastic arts...