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Parents of anencephalics have been in the forefront of the campaign to make use of their infants' organs, as a way of making their brief, tragic lives meaningful. Such babies are often born with no skin or skull above their eyes. They have only an exposed bud of a brain and a brain stem that keeps their heart and lungs working erratically. Under current state laws, death occurs when all brain activity has ceased. Anencephalic infants are technically alive until their brain stem stops functioning. By then, however, the increasingly insufficient oxygen supply has ruined any potentially useful organs...
...battle against drugs, Illinois hopes to make crime pay. Last week the state legislature imposed a sales tax on marijuana, cocaine and other illegal drugs. The law will require dealers to purchase tax stamps that display either a marijuana leaf with a slash through it or a skull and crossbones, and affix them to packages of drugs. The price: $5 per gram of marijuana; $250 per gram of cocaine and other drugs; and $2,000 per 50 pills...
Morrow traveled to Chicago to cover the Democratic Convention. Stepping out of the Hilton Hotel into the battle between police and demonstrators on Michigan Avenue, he was charged by a Chicago cop with billy club raised. "He was about to go for my skull," Morrow says. "I held up my press credentials, like a ridiculous little shield. He thought for a long second, then shouldered me back through the glass doors of the hotel...
...MEANWHILE, have the reciever jammed tightly into your temples--creating a permanent indentation in your already unsightly skull--trying desperately to pick-up faint traces of the conversation on the other line. When you are reconnected, your formerly friendly conversation then degenerates...
...young. Each was severely disturbed, opening his psychic wounds and bleeding into confessional verse. But they all went a step beyond, steeping in self- pity, some sabotaging their marriages with meaningless affairs, others sniping at colleagues and then placing blame elsewhere. "American society would drive anybody out of his skull," fumed Berryman...